Nathan Silverman
Flight Test Software Engineer at Pyka
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Silverman is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building flight test and embedded systems, currently based in Boulder, Colorado and leading software efforts at Pyka. He progressed from intern to senior engineer through hands-on roles integrating avionics, telemetry, and flight software for autonomous aircraft, and has a background in solar vehicle telemetry from the University of Michigan Solar Car Team. Nathan combines multidisciplinary problem-solving with practical field testing experience, shipping robust systems that blend firmware, data telemetry, and test infrastructure. His career includes work through an acquisition (Cosmic AES to Kratos), reflecting experience in regulated, defense-adjacent environments. Known for tackling high-impact, technically challenging problems, he brings both system-level thinking and low-level debugging grit. Outside core duties, he’s drawn to projects that require creative cross-domain solutions and rapid iteration between hardware and software.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science at University of Michigan College of EngineeringHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Burlingame High School
Github Skills (7)
open-access10
jekyll9
computer-science8
science8
scientific-computing7
open-source7
scheduling3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nzsilverman/climbing_carpools
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
University of Michigan Climbing Club Carpool Scheduling Software
Contributions:1 release, 118 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 3 months
schedulingmichiganuniversity-of-michiganclimbingcarpool
nzsilverman/c4cs.github.io
Oct 2018 - Nov 2024
Course Homepage for Computing for Computer Scientists
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
scientistsscientific-computingsciencecomputing
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