Benjamin Perseghetti
Co-Chairman at CogniPilot Foundation
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Perseghetti is an embedded systems leader and serial founder with a decade of hands-on experience building hardware-enabled software and leading research-to-market initiatives from Dayton, Ohio. As Co-Chairman of CogniPilot and CEO/President of multiple companies including Rudis Laboratories and Perseghetti Technologies, he blends strategic leadership with deep technical execution across avionics, robotics, and IoT domains. His open-source contributions to high-profile projects like PX4 Autopilot and the Zephyr RTOS demonstrate practical expertise in board support, device tree and PWM configuration, CANFD, sensor drivers, and multi-vehicle simulation integration. He brings applied research experience from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Wright State, with PhD-level work in computer engineering and physics informing rigorous system design. Known for turning low-level hardware enablement into deployable systems, he often operates at the intersection of simulation, control, and embedded firmware. Colleagues would describe him as an operator who still prefers committing code—especially when it makes complex simulations or vehicle controllers actually work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Wright State UniversityPhD Computer Engineering and Physics (ABD)
Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:255 reviews, 13 PRs, 104 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributes to the Zephyr RTOS project, focusing on the NXP i.MX RT and other ARM-based platforms. Their work includes adding board support for the VMU RT1170 and MIMXRT1062-FMURT6, as well as implementing CANFD support. The user modifies sensor drivers, especially for the ina23x series, optimizing code for these components and correcting their settings. They demonstrate expertise in device tree configuration and PWM peripherals, consistently making contributions geared towards hardware enablement and low-level system integration.
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PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 41 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on modifying mixer configurations and simulation tools for the PX4 Autopilot software. They updated mixer files for rover applications, corrected simulation setup scripts, and integrated support for new simulation models such as the x500 ignition model. They also contributed to the Gazebo simulation environment, specifically for multi-vehicle setups and handling different Gazebo versions.
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