Michael Crum
Flight Software Engineer at Reliable Robotics Corporation
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Crum is a flight software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building autonomous aviation and robotics systems, currently based in Mountain View, CA. He has progressed from flight software intern roles to an active engineering position at Reliable Robotics, developing code that helps planes fly themselves. A Cornell-trained computer scientist with an MEng in ECE and a robotics minor, he designed and taught a novel educational robotics platform (Little Red Rover) that will scale to hundreds of students. Michael blends embedded and higher-level software expertise—ROS, state estimation, path planning, and SLAM—alongside practical hardware design and manufacturing. Beyond aerospace, he mentors makers and builds curriculum for young learners, reflecting a passion for both production systems and cultivating the next generation of engineers. His playful GitHub persona ("Kowabunga") hints at a creative, hands-on approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Cornell University
Github Skills (15)
nodejs8
embedded8
hal8
async8
multiplayer8
executor7
rust7
ros5
open-hardware4
robotics3
esp323
gazebosim2
cpp2
firmware2
python1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
empriselab/mote
Jun 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 19 PRs in 1 year 1 month
usedhondacivic/Node-Drift-Car
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
A Node.js + socket.io multiplayer 2d racing game.
Contributions:172 commits, 2 PRs, 149 pushes in 3 years 11 months
multiplayernodejs
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