Jackson Sugar
Founding Hardware Lead at Zydro Marine Technologies
Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJackson Sugar is a founding hardware lead and robotics-focused engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing maritime and autonomous systems. He combines an M.S. in Oceanographic Instrumentation and a B.S. in Ocean Engineering with a history of roles spanning research labs, ROV competitions, and commercial automation—now leading hardware development at Zydro Marine Technologies. His background at Sea Machines, URI GSO, and robotics startups gives him deep domain expertise in marine sensors, embedded systems, and field-ready integration. Known for solving problems both at sea and in the lab, he blends systems-level thinking with practical prototyping and testing under real-world conditions. Fluent in multidisciplinary teamwork and technical leadership from student CTO and CEO roles to senior engineering positions, he brings entrepreneurial drive to productize ocean autonomy. An uncommon strength is his language study in China, hinting at an aptitude for cross-cultural collaboration in international maritime projects.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Zionsville Community High SchoolOcean Engineering M.S. Oceanographic instrumentation, Ocean Engineering M.S. Oceanographic instrumentation at University of Rhode IslandCritical Language Scholarship Chinese Language, Critical Language Scholarship Chinese Language at 大连理工大学 Dalian University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
spring-mvc7
uri7
ocean7
css5
spring5
design-patterns5
spring-jdbc3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jacksonsugar/Whale_Watchers
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
maxFullmer/MARIMBA
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
URI Ocean Engineering Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Senior Design Project Section 4
Contributions:53 commits in 9 months
fallurioceancsssenior
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