Christopher Cannell
President at Magothy River Technologies
Herndon, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Cannell is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and testing unmanned marine vehicles and related control systems. As President of Magothy River Technologies he leads full-stack development from microcontrollers to cloud, specializing in precision autopilots, navigation, and vehicle software for commercial and defense customers. He previously directed multi-site hardware and software programs at EdgeTech Marine and architected a standards-based vehicle controller and modular operator tooling used across 30+ platforms at Vehicle Control Technologies. Christopher combines deep embedded software and electronics expertise with systems engineering and field test experience, and holds advanced graduate work in electrical engineering. He maintains a DoD security clearance and a practical knack for turning research-grade UUV/USV prototypes into production-ready systems. An understated strength is his ability to bridge academic R&D and operational deployment, having led generations of student-built vehicles into real-world naval and commercial use.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at West Virginia UniversityVirginia Tech
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Github contributions (5)
connect-our-kids/mobile-app
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:12 PRs, 112 pushes, 45 branches in 6 months
Lambda-School-Labs/connect-our-kids-fe
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:79 commits in 4 months
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