Nikki 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.
10 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 Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Zoology/Animal Biology at UC Santa Barbara
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Nikki Gantos - Senior Software Engineer at DroneDeploy