Beniamino Pozzan
Senior Robotics Engineer at PX4
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBeniamino Pozzan is a Senior Robotics Engineer based in London with five years of hands-on experience building autonomous systems and integrating PX4 autopilots into vision-based, GNSS‑denied navigation stacks. As a PX4 maintainer and ROS2 component maintainer, he has contributed key fixes to PX4-Autopilot’s microdds_client enabling multi-agent connections and improved DDS compatibility, demonstrating deep embedded and middleware expertise. He moved from academia—where his PhD work focused on formation control and he maintained an autonomous flight arena and taught control courses—to industry roles running lab and flight trials for Archangel Autonomy. Comfortable across MATLAB/Simulink, Gazebo digital twins, Vicon MoCap integration and real-world flight testing, he blends research rigor with production engineering. A detail not obvious from titles: he has tackled low-level communication resets and parameter handling that make multi-vehicle deployments robust in practice.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Automation Engineering, 110/100 with honours, Master's degree, Automation Engineering, 110/100 with honours at Università degli Studi di PadovaPerito capotecnino in elettrotecnica ed automazione, 100/100, Perito capotecnino in elettrotecnica ed automazione, 100/100 at ITIS Silvio de Pretto
Italian, English
Github Skills (8)
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px410
autopilot10
sys10
opendds10
cprogramming-language9
ros9
c-language9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 8 commits, 35 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Beniamino primarily contributed to the microdds_client module, adding features and fixing issues related to communication within the PX4 Autopilot. These contributions included modifying parameter handling for the XRCE_DDS_KEY and participant names, enabling multiple agents to connect to the same client. The user also added a reset method for subscriptions, which allows reconnections. Furthermore, the user addressed fastrtps version compatibility issues.
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beniaminopozzan/PX4-user_guide
Aug 2022 - Nov 2023
PX4 User Guide
Contributions:22 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 3 months
px4user-guide
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