Chris Dalke
Founder & CEO at Zydro Marine Technologies
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChris Dalke is a founder and full-stack robotics engineer with a decade of experience turning maritime autonomy concepts into fielded systems. He blends software, DevOps, UI/UX, product design, and hands-on mechanical/electrical prototyping to build end-to-end solutions for marine robotics, from sensor drivers and ROS2/DDS integrations to mission planning UIs and cloud deployment. As founder & CEO of Zydro Marine Technologies and former autonomy lead at Sea Machines and Anduril, he has shipped mission-capable unmanned systems and established CI/CD and API architectures that improved reliability and deployability. Comfortable leading small teams in fast-paced startups, he pairs product management instincts with practical testing at sea—having deployed and iterated software directly on boats in Boston Harbor. Passionate about the ocean, he also brings experience in high-pressure hardware R&D and autonomous flight training that informs robust system design across challenging physical environments.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer Nanodegree, Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of RochesterHigh School, High School at North Andover High School
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Github Skills (100)
telegraf10
grafana10
rover10
xpath10
influxdb10
ros10
monitoring10
robotics10
autopilot10
mavlink10
mqtt10
plot10
golang10
json10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
URSolarSplash/Telemetry-Server
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Telemetry Server for the 2019 Rochester Solar Splash boat, including data collection, storage, and transmission.
Contributions:1 release, 81 commits, 61 pushes in 11 months
URSolarSplash/Float-Util
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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