Nathan Heidt
Chief Engineer at Cislune
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Heidt is a chief engineer and robotics-focused software leader with 11 years of experience building space-rated systems and autonomous sensing platforms from Los Angeles. He has led robotics and vision/control software for spaceflight missions including OSAM-2 and Dragonfly subsystems, and developed firmware and sampling tools for lunar and Titan-bound instruments. Prior roles span ML-driven wildfire detection, embedded firmware, and founding a hardware/IoT startup, giving him a rare full-stack blend of firmware, perception, and mission software. Nathan is comfortable owning architecture through delivery—writing grant docs, flight firmware, and high-level planners—and has repeatedly translated research prototypes into flight-constrained products. He brings a practical curiosity for scaling perception pipelines (e.g., systems that processed 100k+ images/day for wildfire detection) alongside hands-on robotics integration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
English, Spanish
Github Skills (52)
mesh10
geometry10
heat9
vtk9
python8
triangular8
arduino-library8
hardware7
camera7
arduino6
python-interface6
esp325
firmware5
siemens4
mathematics4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
heidtn/MeteorTracker
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 3 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years
camerapositionmeteortrajectories
heidtn/PySLAM
Jan 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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