Chris Seto
Staff Firmware Engineer at FarmWise
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Seto is a Staff Firmware Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of hands-on experience building bare-metal and real-time firmware for robotics, UAVs, and autonomous systems. He has progressed from controls engineering and government contracting to leading embedded electronics teams and shipping production firmware at startups like Bossa Nova and FarmWise. Chris contributes to the widely-used PX4 Autopilot project, adding robustness and RC/OSD features such as CRSF driver support and MSP telemetry, reflecting deep expertise in flight systems and telemetry. He combines systems-level firmware design with hardware selection and vendor management, having delivered turnkey autonomous rover guidance and industrial telemetry at scale. A commercial/instrument/instructor-rated pilot, he brings practical aviation insight to avionics and autonomy work and spends off-hours flying FPV planes or restoring a 1973 Piper Cherokee.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (8)
firmware10
embedded10
drones10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
autopilot10
sys10
mavlink9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris made contributions focused on enhancing the radio control (RC) and OSD (On-Screen Display) functionalities of the PX4 Autopilot software. Their work included fixing a routine for DSM2/DSMX RC systems, creating a new driver for the CRSF RC protocol, and implementing MSP telemetry and OSD support. Furthermore, they added support for RC TX control during FW autotune and validated unknown packet sizes to be smaller than max packet size, indicating a focus on improving the system's robustness and user experience.
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chris1seto/PX4-Autopilot
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
PX4 Autopilot Software
Contributions:73 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
autopilotpx4raspberry-pipx4-autopilot
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