Dhruv Upadhyay
Flight Software Engineer (Starship) at SpaceX
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDhruv Upadhyay is a flight software engineer at SpaceX with nine years of embedded systems and robotics experience, grounded in a Mechatronics degree from the University of Waterloo on a Schulich Leader full-ride scholarship. He builds real-time firmware and avionics software that bridges hardware and software — from motor controllers and IMU drivers to power and sensing systems for Starship. His internships at Figure, Skydio, and Wind River highlight consistent latency, reliability, and power-management improvements across humanoid robots, autonomous drones, and industrial IoT. He has led large multidisciplinary teams, authored ROS and STM32 firmware for flight-critical stacks, and designed protocols that reduced packet loss and system blocking. A licensed glider pilot who experiments with rocketry, Dhruv brings a pilot’s discipline and hands-on curiosity to systems where timing and failure teach fastest.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Term, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Exchange Term, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National University of SingaporeBachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 3.90, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 3.90 at University of Waterloo
Gujarati, English
Github Skills (19)
autopilot9
firmware8
rover7
ros5
prototyping5
chrome-extension5
chrome4
react3
javascript3
testing3
linux3
typescript2
mach1
python1
haiku1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UWARG/efs-zeropilot
Jun 2021 - May 2022
Software for WARG custom autopilot
Contributions:38 reviews, 152 commits, 17 PRs in 11 months
fixed-wingmultirotorwarguavautopilot
upadhyaydhruv/Research_Co-op_ML
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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