Kyle Mcgahee
Staff Software Engineer at Bear Flag Robotics
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Mcgahee is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 11 years building real-world robotics and embedded systems, from private aircraft software to 700-pound autonomous machines. He blends hands-on engineering and product intuition—co-founding startups and shipping navigation, state-machine, and safety systems for robots operating in crowded public spaces. At Bear Flag Robotics he continues to push autonomous vehicle and robotics software into operational use, drawing on prior work at Knightscope, research in phenotyping UAVs, and custom robotics products he built through New Earth Robotics. Kyle’s background in embedded systems and mechanical engineering gives him a rare full-stack robotics perspective, able to move between low-level control, perception, and distributed data collection. He’s driven by projects that feel alive, favoring practical, safety-focused solutions that scale beyond prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Embedded Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Embedded Systems at Kansas State University
Github Skills (24)
mongoose7
crud6
neovim5
vim5
nestjs-graphql5
typegoose5
fzf4
typeorm3
nestjs3
eslint-config3
nodejs3
eslint2
typescript2
cli2
vue-cli2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DySense/DySense
Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 271 commits, 209 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Phenomics-KSU/htp_auto
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:69 pushes, 13 branches in 8 months
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