Marco Mendonça
Senior High-Precision GNSS Engineer at Swift Navigation
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolMarco Mendonça is a Senior High-Precision GNSS Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing algorithms and firmware for centimeter-level positioning in land and air vehicles. Currently at Swift Navigation, he brings deep expertise in GNSS/INS integration, real-time PPP, filter tuning, and automated testing pipelines developed with Jenkins and Python/R. His background spans industry and academia—PhD-level geodesy research, university teaching, and applied R&D integrating LiDAR, Bayesian plot-refinement, and ephemeris handling. Notably, he has led development of forward error correction and parity-checking schemes for robust positioning and built test automation frameworks from scratch to validate high-accuracy systems. Based in Calgary, Marco combines electronics training with advanced geomatics to translate cutting-edge research into production-grade navigation solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. in Cartographic Sciences, Geodetic positioning, M.Sc. in Cartographic Sciences, Geodetic positioning at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita FilhoAssociate's Degree, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician, Associate's Degree, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician at SENAI SPDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geodesy and Geomatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geodesy and Geomatics at University of New Brunswick
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
satellite8
sd-card7
usb7
raspberry-pi6
macos6
jenkins-pipeline6
cygwin6
debian-linux6
flash6
geolocation6
google-geolocation6
gps6
linux6
math6
gremlin6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
marcoamm/gnssins
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
marcoamm/gnss_automation_scripts
May 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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