Jason Ashton
Founder & CEO at Aurum Systems
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Ashton is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building perception and autonomy systems for aerial and ground platforms. As CEO of Aurum Systems he is turning existing drones into independent operators without proprietary hardware or constant connectivity, leveraging deep hands-on expertise in sensors, runtime, compute, and calibration. Previously a Day 1 founding engineer at Vayu Robotics and an AV perception engineer at Woven Planet and Lyft Level 5, he has shipped sensor-integration, build systems, CI, and the vision stack that became a first product. His background includes real-world autonomy experiments on rotorcraft at Sikorsky and large-scale LiDAR perception work, blending research-grade algorithms with production engineering. Based in the New York City area and trained in computer science at WPI, he combines entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic system-level thinking. Notably, he focuses on making autonomy resilient to intermittent connectivity and heterogeneous hardware, a practical edge for fielded robotic systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English
Github Skills (11)
request-response8
ipc7
shared-memory7
middleware7
eclipse7
rpc5
rust4
zero-copy4
publish-subscribe4
pubsub4
gstreamer1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jasonashton/ORCA-Home-Automation
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 issues in 1 year 11 months
aurum-ai/Tempo
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
The Tempo Unreal Engine plugins
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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