Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

• Airwards is a not-for-profit awards programme dedicated to
• identifying and recognising positive drone use. The first digital
• awards platform of its kind to champion positive drone use
• cases internationally. Airwards is open to a range of
• individuals and companies each year, including drone
• specialists tronsforming an industry, startups using drone
• technology for creative solutions, and large corporations
• driving innovation.
• The award categories span a number of uses and sectors,
• including Technology, Operations, Supporting Services,
• specifc Industries/Fields and Giving Back, with a People's
• Choice category voted for by the public. Airwards will be
• looking for outstanding examples where drones are leading
• the way in innovation, responsibility and impactful real-world
• solutions.

Sep 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 8 mos

• Dronecode community and coordination, reporting directly to the chairman, my goals are to grow the community of developers and companies and nurture an inclusive and neutral ecosystem for the open source projects hosted under Dronecode.
• Dronecode is the vendor-neutral home of the PX4 autopilot, the MAVLink protocol for unmanned vehicles, the cross-os QGroundControl mission planner for MAVLink autopilots and the DronecodeSDK a MAVLink SDK for the PX4 ecosystem.

Jan 2013 – Jul 2017 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Berkeley, California

• Technical lead to the Systems & Tools team
• Guide The Solo Platform architecture for internal developers efficiency
• Tools to increase productivity and efficiency of Engineering group.
• Engineering Support for other product teams (Solo, Accessories, SiteScan)
• Advocate against tech debt on our platforms.
• Work with Product team to define requirements and capabilities of current and future products.
• Projects:
• Contributed as a Lead engineer:
• Solo
• SiteScan
• Sony R10C integration
• DroneKit
• Solo update process
• Solo External developer guides and tools
• Solo Accessories API (unreleased)
• Contributed to:
• DroneShare.com (defunct)
• SmartShots
• Solo Cloud
• Open Source Projects:
• DroneKit
• Ardupilot
• Mavlink
• Mavproxy
• As a senior software engineer and tech lead, I took it upon myself to execute with total attention to user experience, coordinate with all the other teams, and serve as a mentor to many software engineers and interns, and sometimes they ended up teaching me a few tricks.
• The 3DR Solo is a great product, it was made possible by a great team that faced many challenges, and I'm proud to have worked with every single engineer and ops team member, shipping a product is hard, shipping a flying product is even harder, and together we set new standards for flying robots.

Apr 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Tijuana Area, Mexico

• Strategic lead behind all of our accounts, I personally managed all the digital needs of our clients.
• I personally prepared all of our projects architecture and documentation
• Managed logistics of execution
• Lead client-facing communications
• Trained customers as required on functionality of provided services
• Scheduled and lead internal milestones
• Lead the project team collaboration with digital and design
• Worked with account coordinators to route/traffic on projects
• Managed strategy after we shipped.

Mar 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr · Greater Chicago Area

• As a Senior Software Engineer I was responsible for the project through out the lifecycle, from initial drafts to production release, I helped architect and execute on small to big digital projects for top consumer brands in the pharmaceutical space.
• Project architecture and planning
• Team leadership

Mar 2007 – Mar 2010 · 3 yrs · Greater San Diego Area

• X1FM was an online radio station that took the concept of standard radio stations with set schedule and DJ's but only broadcast online, back in the day there were only a few other services for distributing music online, iTunes Radio was just a list of radio stations that also shared their feed online, a world where Pandora was the standard.
• During my time at X1FM, I helped turn the station from 2 in-house servers to close to 100 off-site colocated servers and helped move all of our streaming services to the Limelight CDN.
• Video/Audio encoding/transcoding live and on demand
• Setup a pipeline for video encoding from our studio to the cloud
• Responsible for the whole operation, not just the streaming services
• Software Engineering (Apps, Web, API's)
• DevOps
• Team manager