Rob Ratcliff
Senior Managing Partner at FutureTek Software Consulting LLC
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRob Ratcliff is a senior managing partner and software engineer with over three decades of aerospace and engineering experience and 11 years focused on custom software for UAS C2, distributed systems, visualization, GIS and optimization. He founded and leads FutureTek, delivering mission-critical engineering and military software that combines thick-client visualization, relational databases, networking and real-time distributed computing. Earlier at Boeing he architected and co-built aerodynamic optimization systems and applied inverse-design techniques to transonic and supersonic wing development for NASA flight experiments. Rob also contributes to open-source avionics tooling, improving MAVLink support in the widely used pymavlink project to enhance compatibility and code-generation across languages. Based in Austin, he blends deep domain expertise in aerospace design with hands-on systems and backend development to solve complex, safety- and performance-critical problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Aerospace Engineering, Masters, Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
data-serialization10
code-generation10
python10
mavlink10
java10
serialization10
sys9
embedded9
media-player6
javafx6
shinobi6
mp46
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ArduPilot/pymavlink
Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
python MAVLink interface and utilities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 31 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob's primary contributions involved enhancing the MAVLink protocol implementation within the pymavlink repository. They fixed serialization and message ID bugs, ensuring compatibility between MAVLink v1 and v2 messages. Additionally, the user added support for doubles and included annotations for units and descriptions within the Java code generation, improving the code's clarity and usability. The work focused on improving message handling and code generation for multiple programming languages.
mavlinkpython
rrr6399/ardupilot
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover source
Contributions:1 release, 164 commits, 247 pushes in 3 years 9 months
arducopterarduinoarduroverautopilotarduplane
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