Katherine Scott is the developer advocate for the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo projects at Intrinsic, an Alphabet subsidiary. She is also a board member for the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). Prior to working on the ROS project Katherine was the image analytics team lead at Planet Labs and 3Scan, and founder and lead software engineer for both Tempo Automation, and Sight Machine. Katherine holds a masters degree from Columbia University and electrical engineering and computer engineering undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan.