Harvest Zhang
Director Of Autonomy, Flight Core at Skydio
Moraga, California, United States
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Top SchoolHarvest Zhang is a multidisciplinary engineering leader with 12 years building autonomous aviation systems, currently directing Flight Core autonomy at Skydio from Moraga, California. He has led perception, situational awareness, and flight-core teams that deliver safe, reliable autonomous flight and operational capabilities across commercial, federal, and defense products. Previously he drove autonomy research and sense-and-avoid systems at A³ by Airbus and worked on long-endurance airborne platforms at Facebook, giving him deep experience across airframes from VTOL air taxis to stratospheric aircraft. A Princeton computer science graduate, Harvest blends hands-on robotics software and ML-perception expertise with program-level leadership, taking prototypes through integration and flight test. Colleagues describe him as the kind of leader who pairs rigorous technical depth with practical flight-test instincts—equally comfortable debugging avionics in the hangar as setting product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma; Diploma Piano Performance; Music Theory, Diploma; Diploma Piano Performance; Music Theory at Eastman Community Music SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Princeton University
French
Github Skills (190)
hash-functions10
des10
java10
non-blocking9
monitoring9
realtime9
maven9
elasticsearch9
asynchronous9
networking9
docker9
restful9
search-engine9
apm9
rust8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ci-and-cd/maven-settings-decoder
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
maven settings.xml decoder for gradle
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 75 pushes in 6 months
maven-pluginmavengradlexmldecoder
ci-and-cd/docker-all
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:172 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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