Michael Carroll

Projects

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A selection of independent and side projects outside of my primary roles.

Huntsville Budget Explorer (2026)

Interactive visualizations of the City of Huntsville, Alabama’s municipal budget, built by hand from the city’s own Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports. Covers revenue and spending flow, fund balances, debt, and a look at Huntsville City Schools’ own finances, from FY2016 through the FY2035 capital plan.

Website GitHub

Poolboy (2026)

A multi-tenant web application for tracking pool water chemistry, maintenance actions, and parameter history over time.

Resume

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Experience

KUKA
Staff Software Engineer (Feb 2026 – Present)
San Jose, California

Contributing to KUKA AMP, a new platform for managing fleets of robots and other automation equipment on a factory floor.

intrinsic.ai
Staff Software Engineer (Oct 2025 – Feb 2026)
Senior Software Engineer (Dec 2022 – Oct 2025)
Mountain View, California

SDK Team: Technical lead for the team responsible for Flowstate’s developer interfaces, including public APIs, documentation, developer tooling, and code examples.
Flowstate-ROS Integration: Designed and implemented integrations between the Intrinsic platform and ROS, allowing customers to integrate new capabilities with minimum investment.
Developer for core ROS 2 performance initiatives, specifically targeting Executor model optimizations to reduce latency and improve execution determinism in complex robotic systems.

Open Robotics
Robotics Software Engineer (Mar 2018 – Dec 2022)
Mountain View, California

Talks and Publications

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Publications

Impact of ROS 2 Node Composition in Robotic Systems
Steve Macenski and Alberto Soragna and Michael Carroll and Zhenpeng Ge
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023
arxiv

ROSCon Talks

Executors in ROS 2
Michael Carroll and William Woodall
ROSCon 2024 Odense, Denmark

r2s: A Terminal User Interface for ROS 2
Michael Carroll and Jenn Nguyen
ROSCon 2024 Odense, Denmark

Simulate your World: A deeper look at extending Gazebo
Michael Carroll and Arjo Chakravarty
ROSCon 2023 New Orleans, Lousiana
(video) (slides)