Colin McOdrum is an Application Engineering Manager at Hirebotics and an AWS Certified Welding Supervisor with nearly a decade of hands-on experience across manual welding, cobotics, and welding automation. He has worked as a Senior Welding Engineer at Air Liquide and held robotics management roles in the industry before joining Hirebotics. He holds a degree in Welding and Fabrication Engineering Technology from Pennsylvania College of Technology. When Colin writes about welding process, it's from years of doing it — not reading about it.