Nikki Gantos
Senior Software Engineer at DroneDeploy
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNikki Gantos is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Diego with a decade of experience building full-stack systems for robotics and geospatial platforms. She has cycled between hands-on engineering and senior roles at DroneDeploy, Saildrone, and Labelbox, bringing domain knowledge in autonomous vehicles, aerial mapping, and data labeling. Her early research internships at JPL and UC Berkeley reflect a strong hardware-to-software background—she’s comfortable bridging embedded robotics work (ROS, vehicle control) with scalable web applications and data pipelines. Known for returning to and growing with teams (multiple tenures at DroneDeploy), she combines pragmatic engineering with product-focused delivery for long-lived systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Zoology/Animal Biology at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (29)
image-segmentation10
annotate10
imagenet9
labeling9
image-annotation9
image-labeling9
computer-vision9
deep-learning8
fastest8
tensorflow8
image-classification8
image-processing8
machine-learning7
sdk7
object-detection7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikkigantos/dronedeploy
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
nikkigantos/platypus_documentation
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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