Louise / chapulina

🔢 Software

Gazebo / Ignition

core dev

ROS (1 and 2)

collaborator

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

heavy user

Office, Inkscape, GIMP,
OpenSCAD, KDEnlive, LaTex

casual user

💻 Programming

C++

heavy user

JavaScript, CMake, Ruby,
Bash

casual user

TypeScript, Angular, Polymer,
C, Python

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

⚙️ Experience

Open Robotics

🇺🇸 USA

Senior Software Engineer

2015 - present

Lead technical development of the Ignition framework’s entity component system core, Ignition Gazebo and GUI library, Ignition GUI . Using C++17, QtQuick, QML, material design.
Gazebo simulator’s core development in C++11. Involved in all aspects, including physics, rendering and transport, with a focus on GUI. Using libraries like Qt, Protobuf, Ogre3D, ODE.
Refactoring of Gazebo wrappers, gazebo_ros_pkgs, for ROS 2.
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.
Interaction with open source community through forums, issue trackers and social networks.
Mentored remote interns through Google Summer of Code and Outreachy.

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,.