Erick Corona - Head Of Systems And Operations Integration

Erick Corona

Head Of Systems And Operations Integration - Autonomous Flight

San Francisco Bay Area United States

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Erick Corona is a multidisciplinary engineering and product leader with 13 years of experience designing and integrating autonomous flight systems, AI-driven predictive maintenance, and complex regulated operations across aviation, energy, defense, and manufacturing. Currently leading Systems and Operations Integration for Gen 6 autonomous eVTOL at Wisk, he bridges aircraft, autonomy, airspace, infrastructure, and operations while coordinating with FAA/NASA and international regulators to advance Automated Flight Rules. He combines hands-on engineering origins—from propulsion simulation and flight test at Boeing to performance methods at GE—with product leadership at C3.ai delivering enterprise AI SaaS for mission-critical assets. An active contributor to open-source data integration (notably resilience and connector work on the widely used Airbyte project), he brings both software craftsmanship and systems-level thinking. Trained at MIT, MIT Sloan, and the University of Washington, he thrives on aligning multidisciplinary teams to turn cutting-edge sensing, compute, and materials advances into operationally validated, safety-conscious products.

13 years of coding experience

15 years of employment as a software developer

MS Aeronautical Engineering | Energy - Propulsion - Fluids, MS Aeronautical Engineering | Energy - Propulsion - Fluids at University of Washington

BS Mechanical Electrical Engineering, BS Mechanical Electrical Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey

Flight Mechanics & Dynamics, Flight Mechanics & Dynamics at Politecnico di Torino

Master of Science Engineering Systems Energy and Sustainability, Master of Science Engineering Systems Energy and Sustainability at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MBA Management, MBA Management at MIT Sloan School of Management

Internal Combustion Engines - Gas/Diesel, Internal Combustion Engines - Gas/Diesel at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

English, Spanish, Italian

Github Skills (14)

etl10

apim10

api10

python10

data-integration10

api-design10

shopify9

data-engineering9

woocommerce9

unit-testing9

pytest8

cicd6

javas3

java3

Programming languages (6)

TypeScriptJavaRustJavaScriptGoPython

Github contributions (5)

airbytehq/airbyte

Mar 2024 - Sep 2024

The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer

Contributions:42 reviews, 47 PRs, 170 pushes in 5 months

Contributions summary:Erick contributed to the Airbyte platform by fixing an exception handling issue, ensuring internal messages are correctly populated in error scenarios. They added resiliency to the Shopify source connector, adding retry mechanisms using the HttpClient to mitigate transient errors. Furthermore, the user made the Woocommerce connector builder-compatible, updated CDK dependencies, and implemented unit integration testing utilities to simplify testing.

operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse

strosek/academic-cucei

Jan 2013 - Nov 2018

Contributions:67 commits, 7 pushes, 1 issue in 5 years 11 months

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