Owen Mcaree
Lecturer In Aerospace Engineering at Zipline
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOwen Mcaree is a Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering with 12 years’ experience specialising in commercial drone systems, from aeromechanical design to autonomous software, computer vision and E/BVLOS safety assurance. He blends academic research (PhD in Unmanned Aerial Systems) with industry impact—leading R&D and system safety work at organisations including Zipline, LiveLink and Neuron Innovations. Owen has designed novel sensor fusion and radio direction-finding systems, developed FPGA/GPU-accelerated signal processing pipelines, and built custom embedded firmware and OpenWRT-based sensor gateways. He advises startups on AI-driven aerial solutions and sits on the advisory board of Luffy AI, bringing a pragmatic product focus to research problems. Known for translating formal verification and stochastic modelling techniques into practical safety cases, he frequently liaises with regulators to enable BVLOS operations. Based in Liverpool, he combines hands-on prototyping and flight operations leadership with mentorship and teaching across universities and industry.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Unmanned Aerial Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Unmanned Aerial Systems at Loughborough University
Github Skills (36)
robotics10
autopilot10
mavlink10
plane10
rover10
arduino10
ros10
lattice9
verilog9
child-process9
hdl9
fpga9
dronekit8
asic8
vhdl8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
omcaree/node-pru
Jul 2013 - May 2015
Node.js module to utilise the Programmable Realtime Units (PRUs) of the BeagleBone
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
beaglebonerealtimenode-jsjavascriptunits
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