# Cherry Cheung

> Robotics!

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/cherry

Experienced Software Engineer - Path Planning with a demonstrated history of working with collision avoidance, simulators and drones. Skilled in programming with C/C++, Python, ROS, Gazebo. M.Sc. & B.Sc. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology.

## Work Experience
### Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ Dusty Robotics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Robot Software Development
- Designed and implemented a custom robotics operating system to replace ROS, including core infrastructure such as coroutines/async frameworks, distributed state management, and low-latency inter-process communication with LMDB and Cap’n Proto.
- Developed station verification capabilities, enabling the robot to check its position and accuracy throughout the day to ensure consistent performance on large-scale job sites.
- Added support for printing arcs in addition to lines, text, and points, expanding the robot’s on-site layout capabilities.
- Built functionality for printing QR codes on construction sites to support job tracking and information sharing.
- Built visualization and rendering pipelines for dynamic SVG generation, ensuring scalable rendering of multi-shape images with accurate geometric bounding boxes.

Leadership & Cross-Functional Contributions
- Coordinated Dusty’s summer intern program (2022 & 2023), mentoring students, defining project scopes, and ensuring integration of contributions into the production codebase.
- Collaborated with hardware, product, and field teams to deploy reliable robotics software to active construction environments.

### Simulation and Path Planning Engineer @ Nightingale Security
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Responsible for maintaining and optimizing the drone’s onboard flight system using ROS
- Path planning and obstacle avoidance using the A* search algorithm
- Localization and mapping
- Building drone simulators with Gazebo for flight testing

### Intern at Chassis Engineering Development Department @ Nissan Motor Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Nissan Advanced Technology Center, Atsugi Japan
A 5-months internship allowed me to do research on the relationship between the driver's biomedical response and driver's operation with a driving simulator setup.

### Teaching Assistant Mechanics @ TU Delft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Assist students during their homework sessions, grading their weekly tests to improve their overall grade, grade and provide feedback for their design reports


## Education
### Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering
Delft University of Technology

### Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering
Delft University of Technology

### Minor in Applied Sustainable Science, Engineering and Techology
Delft University of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cherrycheung-1
- GitHub: https://github.com/cherrycheung

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Last updated: 2026-03-29