Aaron Blasdel
Independent Contractor at Blasdel Consulting
Morgan Hill, California, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Blasdel is an experienced robotics software leader and independent contractor with 13 years of practice building, scaling, and operationalizing robot fleets and development organizations. He has led teams at Amazon and Bossa Nova that grew engineering groups 2-6x and delivered high-throughput autonomy (224+ units stowed/hour) and large-scale fleet deployments (350+ robots) with measurable cost and quality impact. Aaron blends hands-on prototyping and CTO-level technical due diligence—advising VCs on ~$21M in potential investments and preventing ~$6M in risky deals—with deep domain expertise spanning cloud, middleware, observability, and robot autonomy. He drove enterprise ROS/ROS2 adoption and launched AWS RoboMaker/RoboRunner programs while managing multimillion-dollar open source partnerships and CI/CD infrastructure. Known for reducing shipped defects through process and tooling (up to ~37% at Bossa Nova), he brings a pragmatically auditable approach to safety and traceability, including ISO safety certification experience. Based in Morgan Hill, CA, he pairs academic robotics training from the University of Tokyo with a long track record of turning research-grade capabilities into production robotics services.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science: Computer Graphics emphasis, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science: Computer Graphics emphasis at University of California, DavisUniversity of Tokyo
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (48)
hierarchical10
lists10
resampling10
ros10
meta9
robotics9
bayesian9
robot9
filtering9
operating-system8
child-process8
catkin8
fetch8
bull7
expressions7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ros-visualization/rqt_nav_view
Apr 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 4 months
fetchrobotics-gbp/fetch_tools-release
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 15 branches in 8 months
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