Deon Blaauw
Technical Venture Partner at SkyGrids
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDeon Blaauw is a Technical Venture Partner and deep-tech engineer with over a decade of experience turning high-risk R&D into deployable, investable IP for startups across aerospace, enterprise AI, agtech, and conservation. He embeds with founding teams as a hands-on architect and lead coder, recruiting founding engineers and shipping the critical-path systems that move projects from zero to one. Rooted in safety-critical avionics (DO-178C) and a decade building autopilots and swarm control, he applies aerospace-grade rigor to make agentic and physics-informed ML systems deterministic and auditable. His specialties include hybrid multi-agent architectures, geospatial learning, and physics-based models that go beyond LLM wrappers to close the loop with real-world sensors and constraints. Notably, he has bootstrapped anti-poaching sensor networks in Namibia and now co-leads ventures building planetary-scale ag-tech models and enterprise agentic frameworks. Based in the UK, he blends product pragmatism with deep simulation and embedded-systems pedigree to architect solutions where failure is not an option.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MScEng (Cum Laude), Computer Science, MScEng (Cum Laude), Computer Science at Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans, English, Dutch
Github Skills (84)
px410
simulator10
rover10
unreal10
ros10
nvidia-docker10
autopilot10
qt10
mavlink10
stream10
control-systems10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
airsim10
platform-independent10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
deonblaauw/paparazzi
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:91 pushes, 15 branches in 4 months
paparazziairvehicleshardwareopen-source-hardware
deonblaauw/Firmware
Jul 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
autopilotpx4raspberry-pi
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