Ryan Draves
Graduate Research Student
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Draves is a software engineer and PhD student in Aerospace Engineering with nine years of experience building mission-focused systems for space and autonomy. He has applied C++-led flight and embedded software, test infrastructure, and DevOps at Astranis and on CubeSat missions, and now researches distributed data fusion for satellite constellations at CU Boulder. His background spans practical lab work at NASA Glenn, leadership scaling a 40‑person student autonomy team, and production-focused tooling using Docker, CI, and ROS/PCL for perception and control. Comfortable bridging research and production, he combines hands-on firmware and backend development with systems thinking for distributed space systems. An unexpected throughline: he pairs low-level emulation and transient electrical simulation work with high-level conversational-AI and web tooling experience, making him fluent across the stack from circuits to cloud.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan College of EngineeringDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Colorado BoulderDual Enrollment, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School, Dual Enrollment, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School at Ferris State University
Github Skills (62)
visual-studio-code-extension10
git9
continuous-integration9
python9
ros9
arm8
operating-system8
github8
bazel-rules8
bazel8
gcc8
tui8
testing8
post8
arrows8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RyanDraves/nlb
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
Infrastructure is its own reward
Contributions:32 reviews, 157 PRs, 420 pushes in 2 years 6 months
RyanDraves/alexaprize-audrey.github.io
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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