Gerard Sequeira
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Boston Engineering
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United States
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Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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May 2021 - Present
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Senior Software Engineer
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May 2020 - May 2021
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Top Flight Technologies, Inc.
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United States
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Airlines and Aviation
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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May 2019 - May 2020
• Robot Operating System (ROS) nodes for UAV control and communications• Design and implementation of a fully automated "garage" for automated UAV launch, park and refuel profiles.• Low level driver development for UAV sensors (sensors, engine information)• Implementation of an auto-choke mechanism for a hybrid engine to reduce human intervention• Develop and manage flight firmware• Run Software In The Loop (SITL) simulations using ROS and Gazebo• Assist in improvements in flight firmware
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Boston Engineering
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United States
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Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Mar 2008 - May 2019
• ROS - Robot Operating System• Involved in programming a range of microcontroller/microprocessor architectures(8/16/32-bit) ranging from Analog Devices DSPs including the Blackfin, Stellaris, MSP430, C2000 DSC from Texas Instruments, SiLabs 8051, ST ARM9, Microchip dsPIC, PIC18F and Freescale Coldfire cores.• User Interface development. Ability to use libraries to develop menu systems and graphic user interfaces. Seamless integration with hardware drivers for maximum responsiveness.• Motion control for brushless(Sinusoidal, Trapezoidal, Field Oriented Ccontrol) and brushed motors including PID tuning.• TI C000 Floating Point High Precision Floating Point processor PWM stage coding experience• Implementing as well as porting time critical control algorithms.• Interface with COTS motion controllers from Copley, Parker and Elmo.• Bootloader experience for ARM Cortex devices and uClinux( U-Boot )• Embedded Linux flavors including Angstrom and uClinux. Custom kernel compilation.• TI PurePath wireless audio applications/SimpliciTi• D2Audio equalizer experience• Integration of USB devices into applications.• Low level communication drivers including BiSS, CAN bus, SPI/I2C as well as bit banging profiles when required.• CANOpen• FatFS File System integration for USB/SPI Flash/SDMMC drives.• Display Drivers for OLEDs and LCDs Eg: ST 7565R, SSD1306• Research based projects involving image processing using OpenCV.• Ethernet Stack Library integration• SBIR Projects and proposal writing.
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2007 - Mar 2008
Involved in programming algorithms, communication profiles and sensor fusion for power conversion, motor control systems on Digital Signal Processors including the TI C2000 series. Involved in programming algorithms, communication profiles and sensor fusion for power conversion, motor control systems on Digital Signal Processors including the TI C2000 series.
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Missouri University of Science and Technology
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graduate Research Assistant
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Jul 2006 - Oct 2007
Airborne Reconnaissance and Image Analysis, University of Missouri-Rolla( MS&T ). Vision Based Leader-Follower Formation Control For Mobile Robots.
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Research Assistant
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Jul 2005 - Jun 2006
Embedded engineer on the Veil Interactive System, Engineering Research Laboratory. Airborne Reconnaissance and Image Analysis, University of Missouri-Rolla( MS&T ). United States Patent 20070153025
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Software Engineer
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Jan 2005 - Aug 2005
Worked in the special effects division, developing embedded control modules for movie applications including animatronics, camera jib crane controls, motion learning, motion control and wireless triggering. Worked in the special effects division, developing embedded control modules for movie applications including animatronics, camera jib crane controls, motion learning, motion control and wireless triggering.
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Education
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University of Missouri-Rolla
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering -
Padmashree Dr D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
Instrumentation Engineering, Instrumentation