Louise / chapulina

🔢 Software

Gazebo / Ignition

core dev

ROS (1 and 2)

collaborator

Linux, Git, Vim, Docker,
CMake, tmux, AWS, Mercurial

heavy user

Office, Inkscape, LaTex

casual user

💻 Programming

C++, Bash, Julia

heavy user

Rust, CMake, Ruby

casual user

Python, Bazel, JavaScript,
TypeScript, Angular, C, Polymer

familiar

✏ Education

Masters of Automation and Production Systems

🇫🇷 Nantes, France

2012 - 2013

MEng on Robotics and Control

🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland

2011 - 2012

BS on Electromechanical Engineering

🇯🇵 Chiba, Japan

2007 - 2011

🏅 Achievements

🌐 Robohub

25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2015

🌎 Outreachy Scholarship

GNOME stipend to work on Open Source for 3 months.

🇪🇺 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship

Masters studies in Europe and life expenses fully covered for 2 years.

🇯🇵 MEXT Scholarship

Undergrad studies in Japan and life expenses fully covered for 5 years.

💬 Languages

🇧🇷 Portuguese

native

🇺🇸 English

fluent

🇯🇵 Japanese

advanced

🇪🇸 Spanish

advanced

🇫🇷 French

intermediate

🇵🇱 Polish

basic

🎥 Selected media

📹 How To Start a Robot Revolution

Open Source Stories Documentary

🎧 Robot as Software

Command Line Heroes Podcast

📹 これからのGazebo: ROSのシミュレーションの次世代

ROSCon JP 2019 keynote (in Japanese)

🎧 Simulate What You Want and Not What You Don't with Gazebo

Sense Think Act Podcast

📹 Space Robotics Challenge backstage: A glimpse at the challenges of running the competition

ROSCon 2017

📹 What’s new in Gazebo? Upgrading your simulation user experience!

ROSCon 2016

⚙️ Experience

Zipline

🇺🇸 USA

Software Engineering Lead - Simulation and Visualization

2022 - present

Built and led a high-performing team of 2 to 7 software engineers, serving as hiring manager, growing the team, and mentoring engineers on testing, code quality, and development best practices.
Architected and implemented Platform 2’s core simulation framework from scratch, enabling the company’s first test flights, customer Pilot, and scaling to 50,000+ simulations in CI per day across 150 developers and 15+ teams.
Defined and executed a modular simulation strategy leveraging high-fidelity aerodynamic models for software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing; enabling end-to-end integration testing across a fragmented software ecosystem with diverse languages and toolchains, spanning flight software, cloud systems, and production hardware.
Led visualization efforts, extending a Rust-based in-house tool to the web and delivering critical features to support autonomy development, hardware testing, and flight operations, despite tight resource constraints.
Drove cultural change in the software organization by championing scale and automation; introducing new CI pipelines, merge gates, code coverage analysis, linting, and automated documentation workflows.
Balanced leadership and individual contributions, writing production software in Julia and Rust, spanning core simulation features, visualization, CI automation, flight software and physics models.
Managed external vendors and internal stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Compensation, and People teams, overseeing contracts, negotiating terms, and ensuring business alignment.
Communicated technical strategies and platform capabilities through design documents, company-wide presentations, and comprehensive documentation, including tutorials and API references.

Open Robotics

🇺🇸 USA

Gazebo Technical Lead / Software Engineering Supervisor

2015 - 2022

Technical leadership for Gazebo team, with special focus on the framework’s entity component system core, GUI library, and ROS 2 integration, through 6 major releases.
Supervised and mentored 12+ engineers and interns across the Gazebo, ROS, and Infrastructure teams.
Represented Gazebo in the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee (TSC).
Led the Gazebo Community, hosting monthly virtual meetings, posting key updates, answering technical questions, and delivering presentations to drive collaboration and knowledge sharing in the global community.
Development of competition environments and game mechanics, such as NASA’s Space Robotics Challenge and ServiceSim, the Service Robot Simulator. Using ROS, eRuby,
Development of Igniton Fuel, a platform hosting simulation assets online. Involved in the Angular 4+ web UI, as well as the C++ library and command line tool.
Development of CloudSim, a platform for running simulations on the cloud. Involved in full stack, from usability and front-end in Polymer to back-end in NodeJS and integration with AWS services.

Open Source Robotics Foundation

🌎 Remote

Intern / Contractor

2013 - 2014

Developed the mobile version of Gazebo's web client, GzWeb, using Three.js, AngularJS and jQuery. Conducted usability tests and developed features for both desktop and mobile versions,.

📄 Selected publications

Open Source Robotics: Getting Started with Gazebo and ROS 2

InfoQ, 2019

The Robotics Revolution is Open Source

Scientific Computing, 2016

Support Changes during Online Human Motion Imitation by a Humanoid Robot using Task Specification

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2014