Knightscope

A mobile security robot that deters against crime or illegal activity, but not football tackles.

"Super" Full-Stack SWE:

Tech Stack

Python, C++, Java, React, AWS, TensorFlow, ROS

What I Learned

System design for building scalable web applications and best UX/UI to display big data to users
How to successfully bring an idea to MVP in one week (Sprint by Jake Knapp)
How to train a CNN and apply ML to a system. Even if a model works well in internal testing, it may not work well out in production.
The difficulties of mapping a deployment that is over a mile in distance with an off the shelf solution like gmapping
The importance of our field operators, especially when they need to save a robot at 2am because **someone (me)** remotely drove the robot into mud on a rainy night

My Favorite Memory

The engineering team in investigation mode, scrubbing robot video footage trying to find the culprit of who was hiding pizza in a coworkers motorcycle.

We caught the culprit -- it was a squirrel!

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