Craig Reid
Chief Technology Officer at Ornata Technologies
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolCraig Reid is a technology leader and hands-on software engineer with eight years of experience, currently serving as CTO at Ornata Technologies after senior roles at ANCA CNC and three years leading embedded software at aviation startup Swoop Aero. He combines mechatronics expertise (MEng, University of Melbourne) with practical systems experience from autonomous rover software to industrial CNC systems, making him fluent across embedded, robotics, and firmware-to-cloud integrations. Known for thriving in fast-paced startups, he brings both strategic leadership and the ability to dive into low-level engineering challenges. Based in Melbourne, he has an unusual blend of aviation-grade embedded systems experience and academic robotics work that informs robust, safety-conscious product development.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (16)
yang5
gazebosim5
simulation4
mavlink4
ais4
testing4
rover4
python3
codebase3
opc3
ospf3
drones2
dronekit1
dronekit-python1
embedded1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EPJT18/dronekit-python
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
DroneKit-Python library for communicating with Drones via MAVLink.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 months
python-librarypythondronekit-pythondronesdronekit
EPJT18/MAVProxy
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
MAVLink proxy and command line ground station
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 tags in 7 months
ground-stationpythonproxymavlink-proxystation
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