Nic Fischer
Chief Technology Officer at Agtonomy
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Fischer is a multidisciplinary technology leader and current CTO at Agtonomy with 11 years of experience building autonomous ground, airborne, and maritime systems. He blends deep academic training—a PhD in Dynamics, Systems, and Control—with hands-on systems and software engineering roles across robotics teams at Postmates/Uber, Bluefin, and startups, driving products from research prototypes to commercial-scale autonomy. Known for uniting systems architecture, control theory, and scalable software delivery, he has repeatedly scaled autonomy teams and shipped integrated perception-to-control stacks. Based in San Francisco, Nic is passionate about cross-industry tech transfer and automation economics, often applying aerial and maritime lessons to ground vehicle autonomy.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Dynamics Systems and Control, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Dynamics Systems and Control at University of Florida
Github Skills (114)
px410
rover10
ros10
robotics10
autopilot10
mavlink10
ignition10
drones10
gazebosim10
robot-simulator10
robotics-simulation10
raspberry-pi10
gazebo-simulator10
simulator9
v4l29
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pickledgator/colugo
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
pickledgator/mosaic
Feb 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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