Ian Burwell
Senior Electrical Engineer at Boston Dynamics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Burwell is a Senior Electrical Engineer and embedded systems specialist with a decade of hands-on experience designing and debugging drone hardware and firmware for inspection and autonomous flight. He led a Phase 2 SBIR project to develop a next-generation bicopter for interior inspections and has shipped avionics, multispectral payloads, and IoT radios for swarming weather drones. Comfortable across electrical, mechanical, and software domains, he often owns systems end-to-end—from power electronics and PCB design to embedded Linux and flight controller integration. At GreenSight and in prior roles he combined technical leadership with field work, accumulating real-world flight hours and serving as primary pilot and technician for military demonstrations. Now at Boston Dynamics, he applies that blend of rapid prototyping and rigorous testing to high-impact robotics problems. Colleagues know him for rolling up his sleeves to trace elusive faults and for proposing practical, creative solutions that make complex systems reliably operational.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Lexington High SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityNUin Study Abroad, NUin Study Abroad at ACT - American College of Thessaloniki
Github Skills (139)
webots10
px410
simulator10
rover10
ros10
sdf10
robotics10
autopilot10
mavlink10
ignition10
plane10
physics-engine10
simulation10
gazebosim10
robot10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SpyGuyIan/DashboardBioSite
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
A fun little place to test and make things
Contributions:2 PRs, 75 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 9 months
placetestingreactjest
aryaman-patel/cv_motion_detection
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes in 8 days
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