Robert Lefebvre
Senior Staff Systems Engineer, Redwire Defence Tech
North Grenville, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Lefebvre is a Senior Staff Systems Engineer with 14 years of cross-domain experience spanning automotive, factory automation, naval combat systems, and UAV/RPAS development. He combines deep hands-on expertise in helicopter and multirotor flight dynamics, pilot controls and safety with product leadership—having taken the Procyon 800E helicopter drone from concept to low-rate initial production. A veteran ArduPilot lead developer, he helped shape the most widely used open-source UAV autopilot and continues to bridge open-source flight software with certified systems engineering in defense contexts. He has led regulatory efforts as chair of the RPAS Regulatory Committee at Unmanned Systems Canada, advocating for normalized BVLOS operations to enable commercial UAV industrialization. Based in Ontario, he brings a rare mix of mechanical design, embedded systems integration, and program-level delivery experience that accelerates transition from prototype to fielded system.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Pure and Applied Science, Pure and Applied Science at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeBachellor of Applied Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachellor of Applied Science Mechanical Engineering at University of Ottawa
English, French
Github Skills (27)
robotics10
px410
autopilot10
mavlink10
plane10
rover10
dronekit10
arduino10
ros10
cube10
station9
missionplanner9
studio8
open-source7
infrastructure7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
R-Lefebvre/ardupilot
Mar 2015 - Jul 2020
Robert Lefebvre's WIP
Contributions:87 commits, 292 pushes, 297 branches in 5 years 5 months
autopilotwipmavlinkrobert
R-Lefebvre/Ardu-Heli-Gov
Aug 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 4 months
governortachometerhelicopterarduino
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