Christopher Berthelet
Senior Product Design Engineer at Skydio
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Berthelet is a Senior Product Design Engineer in Sunnyvale with 10 years of hands-on experience designing mechatronic and electro-mechanical systems that scale from prototype to volume production. He has progressed through hardware and product design roles at Skydio after earlier mechatronics work at Boosted and internships at Tesla and GM, bringing a strong blend of CAD, prototyping, and validation skills. His background includes applied FEA and MATLAB analysis from medical polymer research and leadership of vehicle systems on UC Berkeley’s solar race team, showing comfort across disciplines from materials to system-level integration. Christopher emphasizes reliability, manufacturability, and practical innovation—often translating novel concepts into production-ready hardware—and has a C++/self-driving systems education that complements his mechanical expertise.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. (5th Year Masters Program) Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics Focus), M.S. (5th Year Masters Program) Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics Focus) at University of California, BerkeleyPre-Engineering, Pre-Engineering at MiraCosta CollegeC++ Nanodegre Autonomous Systems, C++ Nanodegre Autonomous Systems at Udacity
Spanish, English
Github Skills (1)
firmware1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
davidh-/EE192
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
bertheletc/saveTheZumy
Nov 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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