Jacob Oursland
Co-Founder at Dakota Engineering and Development, LLC
San Marcos, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Oursland is an embedded systems and edge computing entrepreneur with 11 years of hands-on experience building networked devices, wearables, and IoT platforms. As founder/co-founder of multiple ventures—including Dakota Engineering, Cloud Inversion, and Orion Autonomous Systems—he spans firmware to cloud: bootloaders and kernel drivers in C, applications in C/C++/Go/Python, and containerized services for Kubernetes. His background includes sensor fusion and GPS-denied navigation research (MS EE), commercial product architecture, and mission-critical firmware for sonar and radar systems, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and production engineering. Based in San Marcos, CA, he combines systems-level debugging and hardware bring-up with cloud-native deployment practices, and is known for turning complex embedded constraints into scalable edge-to-cloud solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at South Dakota Mines
Github Skills (200)
code-generation10
3d10
robotics10
espressif10
llama10
hierarchical10
schematic10
motion-planning10
windows10
esp3210
thor10
mavlink10
3d-models10
modeler10
drones10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
oursland/ros-jazzy
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Recipes and patches for ros-jazzy conda packages
Contributions:3 PRs, 264 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
oursland/FreeCAD
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
Contributions:1 PR, 258 pushes, 78 branches in 2 years 1 month
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