Fred Drury
Principal Consultant at Shift Instrumentation
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolFred Drury is a Principal Consultant and engineer with 10 years of experience building safety-critical embedded systems and bringing hardware-software products from prototype to deployed avionics and medical applications. He has led embedded teams (UAlberta Formula SAE), co-founded multiple startups including BuddyTracker and HockeyConnect, and drove commercialization of in-flight icing detection for military Chinook helicopters while navigating aerospace standards and regulatory processes. Adept at both technical leadership and product strategy, he has held CTO/CEO roles, won (and thoughtfully declined) major innovation awards, and secured Canada’s first commercial air-to-air radar license. Based in Edmonton with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Alberta, he combines hands-on firmware, backend, and UI development with systems-level safety thinking and practical field testing experience.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at University of Alberta
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CMPUT301W17T22/MoodSwing
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:146 commits, 5 PRs, 113 pushes in 1 month
moodsshare
fdrury/HockeyConnect
May 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 57 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 1 month
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