Tyler Vovan
Computer Engineering | Robotics
About
I'm Tyler Vovan. I recently became Team Lead of my Mars Rover robotics team, SC Robotics, competing in the University Rover Challenge. I'm a second-year Computer Engineering student at Saddleback College, with plans to transfer to a four-year university. In five years, I see myself doing embedded software and simulation in robotics or another engineering-related field. Right now, I'm looking for robotics-software, embedded, and PM internships.
Selected Work
Forkbot - Citrus Hack 2026
Hackathon robot that autonomously navigates to a wall outlet, uses on-device YOLO + Intel RealSense depth to lock onto the plug, and raises a lead-screw arm to the exact height, streamed live to a remote operator over Tailscale + Foxglove. Pivoted the entire perception stack to an RTX 4060 laptop after a Jetson Orin Nano bricked 18 hours before demo.
SC Robotics - University Rover Challenge
Built the Foxglove mission control GUI for real-time rover monitoring and operation at the 2026 University Rover Challenge. Edited the System Acceptance Review video under extreme time pressure.
Proxmox Homelab - OpenClaw
Self-hosted Proxmox VE homelab running OpenClaw for AI-assisted development, with Cloudflare Tunnel for secure remote monitoring and access from anywhere.
LinkedIn Tracker
Personal CRM for job seekers: track LinkedIn connections, manage outreach status, and let AI surface the right people at the right time. Integrates with OpenClaw via MCP.
Photography
Personal photography portfolio.
Genki Reference
Digital companion for the Genki Japanese textbook series with interactive grammar tables and vocabulary drills.