Steven Lessard
Flight Software Manager at Blue Origin
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Lessard is a Flight Software Manager with 14 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver human-in-the-loop systems for spacecraft, robots, aircraft, and wearable devices. Currently managing flight software for Blue Origin’s crewed lunar lander (Blue Moon MK2), he combines hands-on systems and software engineering with practical team mentorship across safety-critical projects. His background spans mixed-reality development at Microsoft (HoloLens/IVAS), robotics and SLAM for the U.S. Army ERDC, and soft-robotics and wearable-exosuit research at NASA Ames and UC Santa Cruz. Comfortable bridging research and production, he has repeatedly led cross-disciplinary teams and mentored students and interns while shipping embedded control, autonomy, and human-facing systems. An unusual thread through his career is applying biologically inspired soft-robotics concepts to real-world, high-reliability aerospace and field robotics applications.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Tufts UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (6)
simulation10
mujoco10
simulator10
physics9
robotics9
game-development1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
NASA-Tensegrity-Robotics-Toolkit/NTRTsim
Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
The NASA Tensegrity Robotics Toolkit Simulator, a physics based simulator to research the design and control of tensegrity robots.
Contributions:227 commits, 56 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
physicsroboticssimulationsimulatormujoco
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