John Kesler
Research Assistant at AERPAW
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Kesler is an electrical and computer engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building hardware and software for real-world wireless and embedded systems. As an AERPAW graduate student researcher he designs drone PCBs, embedded flight-control firmware, and distributed Docker-based coordination software for the first researcher-accessible 5G aerial testbed. Previously he improved scalability and reliability of Pendo.io’s Go backend and event ingestion pipeline, bringing production-grade systems engineering to research projects. He holds BS degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is completing an MEng at NC State, blending silicon-proven hardware skills with cloud-native software practices. Comfortable across low-level firmware to distributed container orchestration, he’s known for translating academic research into deployable, safety-conscious vehicle systems. Based in Raleigh, he contributes bilingual English/French notes and often bridges interdisciplinary teams to accelerate experiment-ready wireless platforms.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Electronics Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cary Academy
English, French, German
Github Skills (17)
dronekit-python10
discord-bot6
mavlink6
robot5
discord5
api-client4
homekit4
photon3
wpf3
javascript3
windows3
react-native1
nextjs1
firebase1
react1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TeamQ5270/Team-Q-5270-FTC-Robotics
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 15 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
ftcrobot
morzack/dotfiles
Jun 2019 - Jan 2026
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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