Summary
Quinlong Liang is a founder and hands-on drone engineer with a decade of experience building flight hardware, teaching makers, and leading multidisciplinary teams. He founded Longfly to produce flight controller kits running the dRehmflight C++ library and has led UAV and gimbal design projects that prioritize passive stability and manufacturability. Quinlong has taught drone- and electronics-focused curricula at the MIT-affiliated South End Tech Center and translated classroom projects into real product designs and costed manufacturing proposals for startups. His background spans mechanical design, CAD, and control systems—skills he used to take concepts from wind-tunnel experiments and patent analysis to practical, production-ready mechanisms. Based in Ann Arbor and active as a student at UMass Lowell/University of Michigan, he blends academic work with entrepreneurial product development. He’s equally comfortable soldering flight controllers as he is estimating per-unit manufacturing costs, reflecting a rare blend of bench-level craft and business-minded engineering.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Junior, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Junior at University of Michigan
UMass Lowell