Summary
Joseph Yang is a systems engineering and data consultant with over 15 years of experience designing and certifying safety-critical space, aerospace, and robotic systems, and a decade of hands-on industry practice. As co-founder of Oikolab he built a cloud-native stack to process petabytes of climate and weather data on commodity Linux infrastructure and launched one of the largest APIs of its kind. His background spans mission-critical roles at Honeywell and MDA where he led AOCS design, thermal and power authority for robotics, and root-cause fixes that averted costly on-orbit interventions. He excels at translating rigorous regulatory and verification requirements into practical engineering solutions, having steered certification activities for both medical devices and avionics. Joseph pairs systems-level thinking with data architecture leadership—having driven a company-wide migration to cloud-native geospatial standards—and brings field experience from humanitarian logistics to international space operations. Based in Toronto, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep domain expertise in safety, verification, and scalable data systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) System Design and Management, Master of Science (M.S.) System Design and Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Arts (M.A.) Development Studies, Master of Arts (M.A.) Development Studies at University of Sussex
B.A.Sc Engineering Science (Aerospace Option), B.A.Sc Engineering Science (Aerospace Option) at University of Toronto
Korean, English