# Joshua O'Reilly

> Robotics Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuaoreilly

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stealth Mode Startup
Jan 2025 – Present

### Robotics Engineer @ B GARAGE
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States
- Profiled state estimation pipeline and reduced end-to-end latency by 25%
- Improved lifecycle manager via per-module resource usage monitoring and more robust module bringup
- Traced critical software issues back to hardware design faults, reduced post-flight file transfer time by 20x

### Robotics Engineering Intern @ B GARAGE
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San José, Californie, États-Unis
- Evaluated and bugfixed state estimation stack for drones using ROS2, C++, and Python
- Migrated nodes from ROS1 to ROS2, added lifecycle and composition support to reduce all-core CPU usage by 75%, single-core peak usage by 50%, and large-message passing latency by a factor of 10

### Research Assistant @ ETH Zürich
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Zurich, Switzerland
- Developed scalable pipeline to integrate robot data into benchmark; corrected systemic odometry measurement drift by detecting loop closures and performing bundle adjustment using Python, C++, ROS, Docker, and Maplab
- Selected and installed sensors on robot using C++, Python and ROS, wrote tooling for recording and managing data using Bash and Python, and recorded robot dataset

### Masters Thesis - Benchmarking for Human-Robot Co-Localization @ ETH Zürich
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Developed scalable pipeline to integrate robot data into benchmark; corrected systemic odometry measurement drift by detecting loop closures and performing bundle adjustment using Python, C++, ROS, Docker, and Maplab
- Selected and installed sensors on robot using C++, Python and ROS, wrote tooling for recording and managing data using Bash and Python, and recorded robot dataset

### Semester Project - Stepping Stones with Deep Reinforcement Learning @ ETH Zürich
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Zurich, Switzerland
Taught quadruped robot to walk over stepping stone terrain using Principal Policy Algorithm in Isaac Gym environment; added additional rewards to incentivize locomotion and modified terrain curriculum to avoid early catastrophic failure

### Research Assistant @ University of Ottawa
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ottawa, Canada Area
- Deployed autopilot stack to Pixhawk 4 and Raspberry Pi using Simulink Embedded Coder, allowed serial communication between devices over UART using C++ and Python
- Automated gain selection for airship dynamic model by parallelizing simulation execution and selecting gains based on simulation results using MATLAB

### Teachers Aide @ University of Ottawa
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Ottawa, Canada Area
- Taught Arduino, MATLAB, SolidWorks and machine ship skills in product design class, corrected assignments
- Guided students through design process of revamped tractor exhibit for Agriculture and Food Museum

### Co-Founder and Technical Captain @ uOttawa Bionics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | University of Ottawa
- Managed team of 25 engineering students in designing and manufacturing a hip exoskeleton for stroke patients
- Designed and manufactured parts using SolidWorks, and developed motor position controller using Arduino

### Mechanical/Software Intern @ Romaeris Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ottawa, Canada Area
- Re-wrote multi-threaded aircraft monitoring system with Python and OpenCV, allowing for an arbitrary number of concurrent onboard cameras, and improved frame rate processing speed by 50%
- Designed and simulated UAV taxiing system using SolidWorks and ANSYS Workbench

### Robotics Intern @ ZeMA gGmbH
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Saarbrücken Area, Germany
- Used surface laser scans to align end effector of 6-DoF robotic arm with riveting surface using ROS and Python
- Improved read and write speeds of data collector by factor of 30 using Python and Pandas
- Project was a finalist for Airbus Fly Your Ideas 2019 Competition

### Software Quality Assurance Analyst @ Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | 111 Sussex Avenue
- Performed manual test case writing and execution
- Drafted QA procedure for test case writing for future interns

### Makerspace coordinator @ uOttawa Richard L’Abbé Makerspace
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | University of Ottawa
- Taught 3D printing, Arduino, soldering, laser cutting and CAD to students

### Instructor @ Adventures in Engineering and Science
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | University of Ottawa
- Taught CAD to high school students in the context of an enrichment course
- Designed and hosted bilingual engineering and science workshops


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Robotics, Systems and Control
ETH Zürich

### Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology
University of Ottawa


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshua-oreilly
- Portfolio: https://joshuaoreilly.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/joshuaoreilly/

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Last updated: 2026-04-11