John Shepherd Email & Phone Number

Los Altos, California, Us

TRI's Research Software Engineering (RSE) team works within TRI to develop relevant tooling, frameworks, and software architectures to enable other research teams to operate at maximum efficiency. As the first member of TRI's RSE team, I have worked hard to translate high level customer desires into low-level, well-architected software tools and packages. I've worked extensively on robotics platforms utilizing tools and languages such as Bazel, C++, Python, Bash/Zsh - achieving a publication for some work involving fast approximation of contact patches modeled in the robotics simulator Drake. I've developed front end solutions using Javascript, React, Node, and plotly. I've worked on TRI's motion simulator platform - a software stack using ROS, Unreal Engine, CARLA built on top of C++ and Python utilizing both CMake and Bazel as build systems. I've worked alongside our machine learning team using tools like PyTorch, TVM, ONNX, and Torchscript to further optimize and benchmark models. On top of that work, I've helped architect out an AWS solution for automatic model compilation and benchmarking with an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin utilizing AWS Greengrass, S3, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, and more, all of which is automated using the infrastructure as code tool Terraform. No matter the task, I am always conscious to deliver well crafted, scalable, user-friendly tools and packages in whatever domain the customer may request.

Washington, D.C., Us

I mentored a group of seniors for their senior design project in the 2022-2023 academic year for my alma mater George Washington University. I met weekly with the team to provide guidance, advice, and lead the team towards a path of success. At the end of the year, the Travel Trails group received the Arnold C. Meltzer Award for best overall senior design project. While the team accounted for a majority of the hard work involved, I would like to think my leadership efforts helped more clearly guide them towards this accomplishment.

Mountain View, California, Us

My work focused on Ignition, Open Robotic's advanced robot simulator for research, design, and development. I worked extensively in the rendering, physics, and gui components of Ignition using (and modifying) code bases/APIs such as Qt, QML, DART, OGRE(2), and more. All of this work has been written in C++ and Python, building with CMake and Bazel also using tools such as colcon where relevant. I also worked with ROS, specifically with ament tooling.

Washington, D.C., Us

I aided in undergraduate academic success services and established GW SEAS new Peer Assisted Learning program. I also acted as liaison for GW SEAS undergraduate teaching and learning assistant program having hired ~50 students that now lead GW's tutoring and teaching assistant initiatives.

Washington, D.C., Us

I have cumulatively taught ~250 students in GW's computer architecture and systems programming courses having also led 60+ hours of labs and lectures and conducting 100+ hours of office hours.

Washington, D.C., Us

Under three separate professors, I have obtained a publication in robotics, developed ROS packages for a pick and place project with a 6 DOF arm, and worked with pre-existing C++ code bases, one consisting of 10000+ lines.

Washington, D.C., Us

SEASSPAN is GW's mentoring program for its engineering school. I personally mentored 16 various first year students as well as helped manage the first year class of about 150 students on an annual trip occurring before the beginning of the school year multiple times.

Washington, D.C., Us

I worked in a team developing software in C# for the George Washington Law School. I have developed strong leadership, organizational, and design skills writing code for the end user who would describe his or her specifications to my team. The software written is currently being used by the school.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

I ported commercial maritime antenna control unit code from a PowerPC and QNX real-time operating system to an ARM processor running a real-time Linux kernel (RTLinux). Additionally, I aided in acquiring a vibration table for testing and verification of crystal oscillators.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

I worked extensively in the food industry, providing top experiences to guests. I worked in a team of other crew members, developed collaborative skills, and led and trained new members.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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