Abraham Bachrach
CTO at Skydio Inc
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbraham Bachrach is a robotics-focused CTO with 14 years of experience building autonomous systems, currently leading Skydio’s engineering and product execution from the San Francisco Bay Area. He brings deep academic rigor—a PhD and MS from MIT in EECS (Robotics)—coupled with hands-on systems work at Google[X]’s Project Wing and MIT research on GPS-denied UAV navigation. Abraham blends low-level controls, state estimation, and planning expertise with product and company-level technical leadership, turning research-grade algorithms into robust, production drone software. He’s an active contributor to systems tooling and data-serialization projects (e.g., fixes to the lcm communications library), demonstrating attention to correctness in C++ and event logging subtleties that matter at scale.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Robotics), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Robotics) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
data-serialization10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
serialization10
eventlog9
bit8
bitwise8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lcm-proj/lcm
Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
Lightweight Communications and Marshalling
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Abraham primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the `lcm-proj/lcm` repository. They addressed issues related to code generation in C++, specifically handling include statements for vector and string, and fixed bit-shifting issues in signed integer types. Further contributions include addressing issues related to the binary search in lcm_eventlog_seek_to_timestamp and adding an append mode to the lcm logger, demonstrating skills in data serialization and event logging.
marshallingc99communicationscommunicationc-plus-plus
abachrach/frsm
Aug 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
matchersecurityscansecurity-tools
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