Ross Yeager

Ross Yeager

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VP - Device Platform Software
Mountain View, California, United States

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  • Skydio
    VP - Device Platform Software
    Skydio
    May 2024 - Current (2 years 5 months)
    - Leading the Device Platform org: Mfg Sw, Middleware, and Embedded teams - we own the foundational software that runs on all of our hardware products

    - Strategic leader for our internal Safety and Reliability initiative - aligning Skydio to be the most reliable drone platform on the planet

    - Engineering DRI Leader for the X10 drone platform - Skydio's flagship enterprise drone (we just shipped our 55k-th unit in April 2025)
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    Founder
    Engineered Cash Flow LLC
    Nov 2018 - Current (7 years 11 months)
    Create passive income:

    Software consulting

    Real estate acquisitions and management.

    Ecommerce.
  • Skydio
    Senior Director of Software Engineering - Embedded
    Skydio
    May 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years 2 months)
    Leading the Device Platform Software Org and overall SW lead for the Skydio X10 product line.
  • Skydio
    Director of Software Engineering - Embedded
    Skydio
    Apr 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 3 months)
    Part of the software leadership team at a 2B+ valued startup.
  • Skydio
    Embedded Software Team Lead
    Skydio
    Feb 2019 - Mar 2021 (2 years 2 months)
    ● Software management + product development at one of Silicon Valley's Elite and Growing Startups
    ● Managing the rapidly growing embedded software team while also contributing technically to many of the different subsystems (embedded linux, rtos/baremetal, application layer, buildsystem, hardware bringup)
    ● Key contributor to the magic that is the Skydio 2 and X2 consumer drones
  • Skydio
    Embedded Software Engineer
    Skydio
    Dec 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 2 months)
    ● Key contributor to the Skydio R1 consumer drone. Started when company was about 25 people.

    ● Implementation of ESC command proxy mcu to get prototype fleet flying within first week of start day
    ● Bring up of multiple builds of complex hardware (prototype rounds, dvt, evt, production, etc.)
    ● Bringup of GPS module and optimizing configuration for autonomous vehicle performance, including AssistNow offline/online modes for rapid time to first fix
    ● Responsible for development and maintenance of uboot bootloader for arm64 based vehicle
    ● systemd services for file system and flight stack
    ● Vehicle embedded Linux system OTA development
    ● Overhauled and created a safety critical STM32 family agnostic U
  • Boosted Inc
    Embedded Firmware Engineer
    Boosted Inc
    Jun 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 7 months)
    Embedded firmware engineer at the Silicon Valley startup, Boosted Inc., where the focus is on developing "Last Mile Transportation"​ for the commuter. Played a major role in developing Boosted's latest Second Generation Boosted Board as one of 2 firmware engineers.

    ● Development on motor control for drive system, peripheral BLE MCU’s (3x)
    ● designed and architected BLE state machine and secure bonding for 3 different BLE devices as well as the application firmware for CSR SoCs (including 1 link to iOS phone devices)
    ● NPI manufacturing bringup and testing software in China
    ● OTA bootloader development for second gen board
    ● Telemetry streaming (wired and wireless) and storage
    ● Software for auto-genera
  • Altera
    Senior Design Engineer
    Altera
    Mar 2015 - Jun 2015 (4 months)
    -Firmware development and verification for Altera's latest 14nm product.
  • Altera
    Advanced Design Engineer
    Altera
    Jul 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 8 months)
    - Project lead for the development of the USB-Blaster II download cable- portable debug and configuration cable similar to an MCU programmer estimated at ~7k units sold per year.
  • Engineering Ministries International EMI
    Intern
    Engineering Ministries International EMI
    Jan 2012 - Apr 2012 (4 months)
    eMi: "Designing a world of hope for a world in need"

    Engineering Ministries International (eMi) is a non-profit Christian development organization made up of architects, engineers and design professionals who donate their skills to help children and families around the world step out of poverty and into a world of hope.

    I assisted at the Colorado Springs office and went on a 2.5 week project assignment in Sierra Leone, Africa, where I helped finalize the design of Mercy Ships' hospitals.
  • Maxim Integrated Products
    Technical Summer Intern
    Maxim Integrated Products
    May 2009 - Sep 2012 (3 years 5 months)
    Over the course of 4 summers, I worked for Maxim Integrated as a Technical Intern, contributing to a patent and shipping features.
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  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Master of Engineering (M.Eng, Signal Processing and Communications
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year 1 month)
    Master of Engineering student at UC Berkeley. This program provides an education that combines engineering leadership, managerial skills business practices, and advanced technical work all into a fast track M.Eng. program topped off with an industry sponsored capstone project.

    -Microsoft Windows Phone Application development using computer vision and integration of additional sensor hardware.
    -Master of Engineering Class of 2013 Social Chair
  • University of the Pacific
    Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    University of the Pacific
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2011 (3 years 1 month)
    3.99 Overall GPA, 4.0 Engineering GPA, Valedictorian, Class of 2012

    Regents Scholarship at University of the Pacific,
    Founder-J&R Max Performance
    President, Association of Engineering Students
    Student Director-Heyborne Leadership Academy
    Engineering Tutor
    Engineer’s Club of Stockton 2010 Scholarship Winner
    2010 ACEC Scholarship Winner
    Member of the ASUOP President’s Club
    UOP Clinton Global Initiative University 2010
    2010 Thomas Long Scholarship winner
    2010 SAME Scholarship Winner
    Outstanding Student Electrical Engineering Award UOP
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    mKinect - Kinect Application for Windows Phone
    Aug 2012 - Current (14 years 2 months)
    Creating a fully functional and portable physiotherapy application using the .Net structure; with maximum portability in design for mobile deployment.
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    Industrial Advisory Board Member, University of the Pacific
    Mar
    Industrial Advisory Board Member for alumni Electrical and Computer Science Deparment
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    Fung Institute Paper Prize
    Issued by Fung Institute For Engineering Leadership UC Berkeley
    Award for outstanding and/or innovative M.Eng. capstone project papers.
    - Faculty Advisors/capstone paper committee member nominated
    - Fung Paper Prize distinction and a $100 award issued to the student author
    -16 of all M.Eng. Class of 2013 awarded paper prize
    - Papers professionally edited and promoted as technical reports to the Research Page of the Fung Institute Website
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    An Automated Physiotherapy Exercise Generator
    UC Berkeley Graduate Division EECS May
    Modern devices are integrating natural user interfaces (NUI) into their core structure through touchscreens, 3D depth measurement, voice recognition, and gesture recognition. The NUIs allow users to interact with their electronic devices in a manner that mimics their interaction with the physical world. Because of the nature of NUI devices, there are opportunities to develop applications that support a wide range of people's physical activities. One such application is in remote physiotherapy, where patients use an at-home application to perform and track progress. This inherently involves the creation and utilization of a pre-defined exercise database that patients/therapists can compile to create custom rehabilitation regimens. This paper
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