Senior Robotics Software Engineer at Ekumen.
I've worked in software since 2015, with around nine years in robotics and a background in electronics engineering. These days most of my value is at the seam between the client and the engineering team. I sit with stakeholders, dig out the real pain points behind what they're asking for, turn that into a plan the team can act on, and then make sure it ships. The years of hands-on robotics work are what let me have those conversations credibly and call the technical trade-offs as they come up.
- Client interface. I talk to stakeholders, surface the explicit and implicit requirements, and translate ambiguity into clear direction the team can build against.
- Leading delivery. I lead small engineering teams: scoping the work, keeping people unblocked, and moving projects forward in fast, agile settings. I'll step into the code or step back into advising depending on what the project needs.
- Propose, then deliver. Identifying a problem is only half of it. I take proposals through to working software and an organized handoff.
- Robot simulation at scale. Gazebo-based simulations running in the cloud for CI, optimized enough that thousands of automated runs a day stay affordable.
- ROS to ROS 2 migrations. Refactoring navigation and control code into testable, middleware-agnostic modules and decoupling business logic from the framework.
- Mobile manipulation. Motion planning with MoveIt, task orchestration with behavior trees, and hardware integration through ros_control on mobile bases with manipulator arms.
- ROS 2 internals. Middleware-level work on executors, node lifecycle, and message QoS.
- Languages: C++, Python, C
- Robotics: ROS 2, ROS, Gazebo, MoveIt, behavior trees
- Build & packaging: CMake, Colcon, Catkin, Conan, Setuptools
- Infrastructure & DevOps: Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Rundeck, AWS (EC2, RoboMaker), VMware ESXi
- Embedded: RTOS, bare-metal programming, PCB design
- Postgraduate Specialization in Embedded Systems, University of Buenos Aires
- BSc in Electronics Engineering (Mechatronics emphasis), National University of Asunción, Paraguay