Steve Safarik
Navigation Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Safarik is a Navigation Engineer with 14 years of experience building real-time, safety-critical flight software for autonomous aerial vehicles, currently focused on personal projects rather than seeking employment. At Amazon Prime Air he led development of the onboard navigation and state-estimation subsystems—designing GPS, magnetometer calibration, synthetic GPS from motion capture, and microsecond-timed POSIX multithreaded systems—using C/C++, Python, ROS, Simulink and MATLAB. His background blends robotics research and applied engineering from a UW controls and robotics Master's, where he built sophisticated computer-vision and closed-loop systems for behavioral experiments (e.g., Kinefly and Flylab). He brings deep expertise in sensor fusion, calibration, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and low-latency embedded software, plus a knack for turning lab-grade prototypes into flight-worthy systems. An uncommon strength is his experience bridging biology-grade experimental rigs and production avionics, giving him a unique systems perspective on perception and control.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Controls & Robotics, EE, Master's Degree, Controls & Robotics, EE at University of WashingtonBachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at California State University-Chico
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Github Skills (9)
camera9
ros8
lists8
opencv6
sse6
pose-estimation6
ros-driver5
slam-algorithms3
sdk3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ssafarik/camera_aravis
Aug 2012 - Oct 2014
ROS Camera Driver for GigE Cameras
Contributions:55 commits in 2 years 1 month
cameragigeroscameras
ssafarik/Kinefly
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:157 commits, 6 pushes in 9 months
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