# Keegan Nave

> Robotics Software Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/keegannave

## Work Experience
### Robotics Software Engineer @ Kawasaki Robotics
Jan 2025 – Present

### Graduate Robotics Research Assistant @ Oregon State University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Research focused on perception and manipulation approaches for Robotic Agriculture.

### Undergraduate Robotics Research Assistant @ Oregon State University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Corvallis, Oregon Area
Developed software for automated testbeds and workstations.
Developed monitoring and data collection tools that are used on real and simulated hardware.

### OceanWATERS Autonomy Intern @ NASA Ames Research Center
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Developed robust, fault tolerant autonomy plans for simulated ocean world lander missions with ROS, C++ and PLEXIL.

Github: https://github.com/nasa/ow_autonomy
Designed and implemented a software architecture in C++ to track fault relationships across lander subsystems and procedures.

### OceanWATERS Autonomy Intern @ NASA Ames Research Center
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
OceanWATERS is a virtual testbed for developing and maturing autonomy technologies relevant to ocean worlds lander missions. 

During my internship I worked on improving simulated autonomy plans and the OceanWATERS PLEXIL (Plan Execution Interchange Language) execution interface.

Github: https://github.com/nasa/ow_simulator


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/keegan-nave

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Last updated: 2026-04-11