Nathan Friendly
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Experience
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BRINC
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United States
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Software Development Engineer
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2023 - Present
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Amazon
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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2021 - Dec 2022
Senior SDE on the Mobility Team at Amazon Canvas – Autonomous Warehouse Robots - Redesigned the motion control team’s architecture to support multiple robotics platforms and control algorithms using a modular ROS2 based architecture. This required defining an interface between the planning and control systems, integrating with open source implementations, and implementing error reporting and handling. - Validated performance of external vendor’s robotics platform and integrated it with Canvas’s existing software. Show less
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Amazon
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Mar 2018 - 2020
Senior SDE on the Avionics Firmware team at Amazon Prime Air- Implemented bare-metal Atmel and Arm based microcontroller applications and drivers for Prime Air’s first two generations of distributed sensing and actuation systems. Primary owner of the control surface servos, package delivery actuators, and common bootloader. Responsible for all non-motor distributed systems for first generation delivery vehicle.- System owner of the primary vehicle communication bus. Designed messaging protocol and managed message implementation and bandwidth allocation across multiple software teams. Implemented post flight log analysis and test tooling.- Designed and implemented on-vehicle tooling for software deployment, configuration management +verification, and log offload. Show less
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Hardware Design Engineer
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Nov 2014 - Mar 2018
Hardware design engineer on the Avionics Hardware team at Amazon Prime Air - Schematic capture, layout, and bring-up testing of circuit boards for an air data sensing system, a servo communication interface, and an emergency shutoff remote.- Designed, implemented, and deployed an automated battery charging station with cloud-based battery health logging and monitoring.
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ReconRobotics, Inc.
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Electrical Engineering Intern
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Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
Wrote code for microcontrollers in small robots, implementing functionality including motor control and sensor feedback. Designed, built and debugged prototype circuit boards. Wrote code for microcontrollers in small robots, implementing functionality including motor control and sensor feedback. Designed, built and debugged prototype circuit boards.
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Medtronic
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United States
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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R&D Intern
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Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
Created and ran use condition tests for flexible catheters. Assisted in design verification testing. Wrote code that automated a report that previously took a day to manually compile. Created and ran use condition tests for flexible catheters. Assisted in design verification testing. Wrote code that automated a report that previously took a day to manually compile.
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Education
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Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering -
Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Engineering Sciences -
Minnetonka High School