David Akre
Founder at Akreon
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Akre is a founder and robotics-minded software engineer with 11 years of experience building autonomy, perception, and real-time systems across aerospace, defense, and commercial robotics. He led R&D and technical teams at Unikie and Lockheed Martin, shipping SLAM, lidar reconstruction, feature extraction, and FPGA/GPU-accelerated flight software for cubesats and autonomous vehicles. At Stratom he drove full-stack autonomy for ground platforms and robotic refueling, and he now leads Akreon to bridge deep-tech infrastructure with applied robotics. Trained with advanced degrees in ECE and a PhD focus in robotics, David blends academic rigor with hands-on production engineering across embedded, cloud, and vehicle software stacks. Less obvious, he pairs systems-level architecture skills with programmatic operations experience—helping teams move from research prototypes to streamlined vehicle software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaPhD Robotics, PhD Robotics at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Iowa
Github Skills (2)
xilinx2
verilog1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dakre21/ClubfootRepository
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
dakre21/Finger-Print-Scanner
Apr 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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