Brian Taylor
Founder & CEO at Bolder Flight Systems
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Taylor is the founder and CEO of Bolder Flight Systems with 11 years of hands-on experience developing data acquisition and flight control systems for manned and unmanned aircraft. He blends deep academic research in parameter estimation, aircraft dynamics, and optimal control with practical flight test expertise—having supported hundreds of test flights and led multi-flight NASA research campaigns. A skilled embedded systems engineer, he authors low-level libraries for SBUS and InvenSense IMUs, optimizing real-time protocols and sensor FIFO performance for platforms like Arduino and Teensy. Based in Santa Fe, he scaled the University of Minnesota’s UAV lab into a top-tier research facility and brings a rare mix of rigorous aerospace engineering, entrepreneurship, and field-proven avionics software.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
NASA Foundations of Influence, Relationships, Success, and TeamworkBachelor’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Cum Laude at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (16)
i2c10
imu10
embedded10
drones10
c-language10
robotics10
serial-communication10
driver10
cprogramming-language10
spi10
sys10
arduino10
sensor10
teensy9
digital-signal-processing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bolderflight/invensense-imu
Nov 2015 - Oct 2022
Arduino and CMake library for communicating with the InvenSense MPU-9250 and MPU-9255 nine-axis IMUs.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:6 releases, 263 commits, 13 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily revolve around developing a library for the InvenSense MPU-9250 and MPU-9255 nine-axis IMUs. Their initial commit established the foundational code, including the implementation of core functionalities to interact with the sensor. They then added test framework updates, sensor range configurations and the addition of FIFO functionality, as well as setting up the I2C/SPI communication between a microcontroller and sensor device.
axisninesensorsimu-sensorsensor
bolderflight/SBUS
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 branch in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brian primarily worked on developing a library for communicating with SBUS receivers and servos. They implemented the initial parsing and return of the SBUS packet data, including channel values, failsafe status, and lost frame information. Further contributions included adding functionality to calibrate the channel values and write SBUS packets. Bug fixes, platform-specific optimizations, and the addition of SBUS2 support were also part of their efforts.
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