Joseph Kopena
Director Of Engineering at Drakontas LLC
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Kopena is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder with 13+ years of experience specializing in resilient networking and AI for mobile and extreme environments. As Director of Engineering at Drakontas and former Chief Scientist at Bellerophon Mobile, he has led R&D for DARPA, NSF, US Army CERDEC, ONR, and DISA on mobile ad hoc, delay-tolerant, and content-based networking. His background blends deep academic research—from semantic web ontologies, multi-agent systems, and knowledge representation to low-cost robotics—with practical system building, including the OWLJessKB reasoner and early contributions to the NS-3 simulator and IETF MANET work. He also has a knack for education and outreach, co-developing computer science and robotics curricula, and an unexpected creative streak in game design with titles that reached large audiences. Based in Philadelphia, he brings a rare mix of research rigor, field-facing engineering, and product-minded leadership to hard networking and AI problems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Drexel University
English
Github Skills (59)
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logging8
robocup8
optimization8
discrete-event-simulation8
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orbital-mechanics8
logrus8
hugo8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BellerophonMobile/hippo
Jul 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 4 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 8 months
golangcryptographycryptography-functionswrapscertificate
BellerophonMobile/goflagbuilder
Nov 2014 - Aug 2018
Build command line flags to set fields in a configuration structure using Go's built-in flag package.
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
golangflagsfieldsbuilt-incli
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