Farhang N
Maintainer at PX4 Autopilot
Kingston, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFarhang N is an experienced embedded and robotics software engineer with six years building and maintaining flight-control systems, currently a maintainer of PX4 Autopilot and a grad student at the University of Rhode Island. He co-founded Caretta Robotics and has held engineering roles across drone shows, simulation, and AUV research, blending firmware, hardware architecture, and learning-based control. Comfortable moving between research and product, he has hands-on expertise in PX4, MAVROS, and simulation stacks and has driven community contributions for years before becoming a maintainer. His background includes leadership roles from CTO to club chairperson, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and mentorship in robotics communities. Notably, he pairs practical failure-detection and hardware design experience from earlier technical roles with current work on sonar-based terrain reconstruction for autonomous systems.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Electrical Engineering, B, Bsc, Electrical Engineering, B at Tafresh University
English, Spanish, turco
Github Skills (88)
px410
windows10
rover10
homebrew-formula10
lua10
dronekit10
ros10
station10
robotics10
autopilot10
qt10
mavlink10
linux10
plot10
user-guide10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
farhangnaderi/ardupilot
Mar 2020 - Jun 2023
ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover source
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
arducopterarduinoarduroverautopilotarduplane
farhangnaderi/mvp_control
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
ROS-MVP Vehicle Controller
Contributions:8 PRs, 105 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 2 months
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