About Roy
Positioning (to refine): robotics-focused software engineer / systems builder. Currently turning AI / ROS2 / perception / hardware bring-up / safety / real-robot logs into a portfolio and research evidence. Not “a mature robotics expert”.
Current Focus
- Main track: robotics / embodied-AI / real-world systems.
- Summer focus: PawAI, XLeRobot / SO-101, AmazingHand, Open Duck Mini.
- TODO: one paragraph on what I’m most invested in right now.
How I Got Here
- Started from self-taught React, an early startup internship, and full-stack / AI software exploration — building product and software-engineering foundations.
- TODO: the story — early startup internship the summer before junior year, hired after 2–3 months of self-study. Company name public? TBD.
Why Robotics
- PawAI forced the real cross-layer problems: sensors, ROS2, Jetson resource limits, an LLM that can’t directly control the dog, safety gates, demo fallbacks, and thin observability.
- TODO: turn the above into “why a software foundation lets me make a difference in robotics”.
What I’m Looking For
- Robotics / embodied-AI / real-world AI systems internships.
- Especially roles needing software–hardware integration, perception, robot runtime, developer tooling, and experiment logging.