Aldo Vargas
Senior Engineering Manager at AltaX Consulting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAldo Vargas is a Senior Engineering Manager and roboticist with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that design, integrate, and deploy unmanned systems across aerial, terrestrial, and marine domains. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Glasgow and completed a postdoc at Oxford where he built an autonomous aerial system to track pollinators using computer vision and ML. Aldo combines hands-on skills in GNC, control, sensor fusion, embedded systems and AI with product-minded leadership demonstrated at Nexus Robotics and now RailVision Analytics, while also founding AltaX Consulting to help unmanned-systems businesses scale. His research on payload swing reduction for multi-rotors and multiple peer-reviewed publications underscore a deep control-theory and systems-integration pedigree. An accomplished multi-rotor pilot, rescue diver, motorcyclist and Lego enthusiast, he brings a practical, adventurous mindset to complex engineering problems. Based in Montreal, he blends academic rigor with startup agility to deliver robust, safety-critical robotics solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Design for Sustainability Course, Exchange Student Design for Sustainability Course at University of California, BerkeleyUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of Glasgow
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (121)
ros10
usbcamera10
robotics10
dronekit-python9
python9
firmware9
opencv9
arduino9
nodejs-library9
latex8
mavlink8
autopilot8
v4l28
proxy8
rover8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alduxvm/DronePilot
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Automatic pilot that can control and fly several drones, including Pixhawk's, APM's and MultiWii's
Contributions:177 commits, 175 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
alduxvm/pyMultiWii
Nov 2014 - May 2019
MultiWii Serial Protocol (MSP) API to send and receive data from firmware using MSP
Contributions:34 commits, 13 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 years 6 months
firmware
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