Andrew Goessling
Director Of Engineering at Skydio
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Goessling is a hands-on Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience leading hardware-centric aerospace and electrification programs from prototype to flight. He has built and scaled engineering teams and processes at companies like Kitty Hawk and Skydio, while as CTO and co-founder of Magpie Aviation he led the development and first-ever in-air tow reconnection between manned aircraft. His background spans power electronics, flight control, avionics, and embedded software—combining deep practical skills (C/C++, bare-metal firmware, SiC motor controllers, PMSM FOC) with systems-level architecture and FAA-facing certification experience. Known for turning early-stage ambiguity into focused execution, he thrives on projects where hardware integration is a primary value driver and has personally closed gaps from TIG welding to control-system simulation. Based in Redwood City, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and academic rigor from MIT to complex, safety-critical vehicle programs.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhillips Exeter Academy
German
Github Skills (74)
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verilog8
time-series8
vivado7
xilinx7
visualization7
cpp6
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simulator6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
agoessling/faos
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:60 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 1 month
agoessling/bazel_arm_toolchains
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
Hermetic ARM toolchains for Bazel
Contributions:3 releases, 4 reviews, 2 PRs in 9 months
armbazelhermetictoolchain
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