Brett Bethke
Robotics Software Engineer at Zipline International
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBrett Bethke is a robotics software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building autonomy, control, and ML-driven systems for aerial and unmanned platforms. He currently architects and ships robotics software at Zipline, following senior engineering roles at Kitty Hawk and a senior staff data scientist position at Airware, blending deep learning, optimization, and controls expertise. Trained at MIT through a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and an S.B. in Physics, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with hands-on avionics and systems experience dating back to early work at Blue Origin and CTO leadership at a small aerospace firm. Brett’s strengths lie in translating advanced dynamic programming and AI research into robust, production-ready autonomous systems—often solving edge-case safety and optimization problems that aren’t obvious from high-level specs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
S.B., Physics, S.B., Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (120)
python10
command-line-interface10
websocket10
collaboration10
javascript10
autobahn10
kurento10
linux10
wamp10
webrtc10
php10
conferencing10
nextcloud10
emacs9
neural-network9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bb4242/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:175 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
bb4242/sdnotify
Jun 2016 - Nov 2021
A pure Python implementation of systemd's service notification protocol (sd_notify)
Contributions:4 releases, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 6 months
pythonsystemdprotocolsystemd-service-notification
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