Ilia Kuklev
Sensors Team Lead at Avride
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlia Kuklev is a sensors and embedded-systems leader with a decade of experience designing autonomous control systems for spacecraft, UAVs, and autonomous vehicles, and eight years of hands-on engineering across software and electronics. He has led teams up to 20 engineers and run cross-functional projects from lunar lander flight hardware to LiDAR integration for self-driving platforms, blending project management with deep technical contribution. Comfortable in startup and institutional settings, Ilia has built remote development processes, introduced DevOps practices, and overseen manufacturing, testing, and quality control for mission-critical hardware. Notably, his hardware and real-time control modules contributed to lunar mission success, reflecting rare end-to-end expertise from PCB to production. Based in Austin, he combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic implementation to deliver robust sensing solutions under tight operational constraints.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Advanced Electronic Techniques, Master's degree, Advanced Electronic Techniques at Wrexham UniversityMaster's degree, Electronic Design, Master's degree, Electronic Design at Московский Государственный Институт Электронной Техники (Технический Университет) (МИЭТ)
Github Skills (9)
spacex9
backend7
station7
core-library6
gcp6
desktop6
mavlink6
web-development4
px43
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Midgrad/loodsman
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
Cross platform udp,tcp and serial connection library
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 PRs, 100 pushes in 5 months
tcp-serversocketwindowsserialasio
nnhw/SAMM
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 months
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