Gabriel Staples
Aerospace Embedded Software & GNC (Guidance, Navigation, & Control) Engineer
Sierra Vista, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolGabriel Staples is a Principal Aerospace Embedded Software and GNC engineer with 12 years of experience building flight-critical firmware and control systems for UAVs and autonomous vehicles. He has shipped production embedded software across industries—from ISR UAV platforms at Edge Autonomy to C++/embedded Linux systems for Cruise and motor-control/LiDAR firmware at Uber ATG—working extensively with microcontrollers, FreeRTOS, and DevOps toolchains. A former USAF officer and experimental flight-controls researcher, he pairs hands-on circuit and hardware design with advanced navigation algorithm development and real-world flight test experience. He also founded a successful hobby/contract engineering shop that produced widely used Arduino libraries and specialty flight hardware for film and research applications, showing a knack for fast prototyping and practical innovation. Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, Gabriel blends multidisciplinary engineering with field operations and rigorous documentation practices.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Researcher: Dynamic Systems and Controls lab, Researcher: Dynamic Systems and Controls lab at Florida Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Aeronautical Engineering; Arabic Minor, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Aeronautical Engineering; Arabic Minor at United States Air Force AcademyResearcher: drone controls firmware and software, Researcher: drone controls firmware and software at The Ohio State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
English, spanish (dlpt/opi: 4/3/2), french (dlpt/opi: 3/3/2), Portuguese, Arabic
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Github Skills (200)
libgit210
msgpack10
testing10
rsa-cryptography10
vim10
utterances10
fuzzy-finder10
rsync10
micro10
visual-studio10
command-line-tool10
floating-point10
cpp10
armv710
gitconfig10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
ElectricRCAircraftGuy/eRCaGuy_gtest_practice
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
ElectricRCAircraftGuy/bug_reports
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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