Kier Dugan
Autonomy & Control Director at Kraken Technology Group
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKier Dugan is an autonomy and control leader with 12 years’ experience building high-performance embedded and cloud systems for autonomous vehicles and robotics. Currently directing Autonomy & Control at Kraken Technology Group, he combines systems-level thinking with hands-on hardware and software implementation from PLCs and real-time control to cloud infrastructure. He has led multidisciplinary teams at L3Harris and Sees.ai, shipping collision-avoidance, contact-fusion, and mission-planning capabilities used in demanding maritime and survey operations. His PhD work on self-configuration of massively distributed systems informs a research-driven approach to parallel and reconfigurable computation for autonomy. Known for mentoring engineers and translating customer needs into technical roadmaps, he thrives at the intersection of R&D, product delivery, and field testing at sea. Colleagues value his knack for turning complex, safety-critical requirements into pragmatic, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton
Github Skills (19)
nuget10
powershell-module10
plug9
powershell9
warp8
zsh5
updating5
static-site5
wintersmith5
markdown4
site-generator4
environment-variables3
static-site-generator2
json2
cli2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KierDugan/PoShWarp
Oct 2014 - Mar 2022
A PowerShell port of the warp directory plug-in for zsh.
Contributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 7 years 6 months
powershellwarpplug-indirectoryplug
KierDugan/PoShDoc
Nov 2014 - Mar 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push, 3 branches in 7 years 4 months
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