Charles Blouin
President at Tyto Robotics
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolCharles Blouin is a mechanical engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience as co-founder and president of Tyto Robotics (formerly RCbenchmark), the market leader in motor and propeller testing equipment for UAVs. He combines hands-on expertise in hardware (mechanical design, PCB) and software (C#, C++, Python, embedded systems, multithreading) with company-wide leadership across product, production, sales and operations. His master's work on optimal control and a sustained hobby in reinforcement learning inform experiments in legged robotics and neural-network‑controlled robots showcased on his GitHub. Charles has taken products from concept to customer deployment, led multi-discipline teams, and secured institutional funding and multiple startup awards. Early research experience in aerial vehicles and wind-energy publications gives him a rare blend of academic rigor and commercial product delivery. Based in Gatineau, Quebec, he balances technical curiosity with entrepreneurial grit and a knack for translating control theory into practical UAV test systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engineering, Master's degree, Engineering at University of Ottawa
English, French
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Github Skills (50)
ros9
pybullet8
drones8
robotics8
simulation8
mavlink8
simulator8
autopilot8
kinematics8
toolbox7
px47
rover7
collision7
sdk7
reinforcement-learning7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
charles-blouin/servorobots
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:146 commits, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
charles-blouin/Mechaduino-Firmware
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Hardware available here:
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
hardware
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