Christopher Joseph Email & Phone Number

Christopher has been able to accomplish many feats across various challenging projects such as simulating a realistic environment for industrial robotic workcells and rapidly prototyping various sensing solutions for unmanned aerial vehicle applications.He has also taken various opportunities to interview potential employees, mentor interns on projects that he scoped and pursue additional avenues of community contributions to Virtana. Being employed here has aided in realizing his future goals of engaging in deeply technical software development and becoming a senior software developer with a variety of skills and a wealth of knowledge.𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀𝗗𝗲𝘃 𝗢𝗽𝘀• Implemented functionality to automatically create builds of robotic simulations. (2019, Unity3D, C#, Bash)𝗦𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻• Performed the transition and upkeep 6+ real unique industrial robot arm workcells from real deployments into a custom Unity3d based robot simulation environment. (2019-2020, Unity3d, C#)• Added various features to a robotics simulation. Changes involved: modeling real cameras, designing custom shaders, using cloth simulation plugins, modeling a suction device and asynchronous camera rendering. (2020-2021, Unity3D, HLSL, C#)• Wrapped a robot simulator with purpose-built python & TCP/IP APIs to enable use by machine learning researchers to validate novel deep learning architectures. (2021, Unity3d, C#, Python, Bash, Numpy)𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮• De-risking of various image manipulation paths by using OpenCV to implement the beginnings of a from-scratch image alignment algorithm and a custom block matching algorithm. OpenCV was also used to undistort and process images. (2022, Python, OpenCV)𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗪• Rapid sensor prototyping for unmanned aerial vehicles. Sensing modalities include: RGB, Stereo RGB, Near Infrared, Thermal (Long-wave IR), LiDar, Radio. (2022, Python, Bash, C)Sourced from: https://www.virtanatech.com/team

St. Augustine, Trinidad And Tobago

Trinidad And Tobago

I worked as a Student Assistant. I produced thorough course resources for the Game Programming course including a deep dive into the Unity Engine and Assignment documents for future students to undertake.