Developing mission-critical flight software for production autonomous drone platforms (1.6M+ items delivered, 6.0M+ people served globally) on Embedded Linux at Swoop Aero, within an Agile development team with rapid iterative development and rigorous validation standards for deployment readiness.
Achievement: Delivered flight software for vision-based autonomous takeoff and landing on moving platforms (e.g., ship decks), integrating real-time sensor processing, state estimation, and autonomous decision-making, validated through extensive SIL testing and on-vehicle deployment.
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