Dakoda Neilson
Principal System Engineer at Autonodyne LLC
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDakoda Neilson is a Principal Systems Engineer with over a decade in aerospace and defense, specializing in taking novel unmanned systems and autonomy concepts from prototype through low-rate production. He blends hands-on software development, systems engineering, and program management—having authored a PX4 fork implementing an adaptive controller and built Python/JavaScript airspace alerting and data-correlation stacks using Redis. Comfortable in both executive and technical trenches, he has led product development teams, flight test programs, regulatory strategy for FAA approvals, and capture efforts for defense and commercial sales. His background as a pilot, test pilot, and mechanic gives him rare operational insight that tightens requirements, safety assessments (ARP4761/AR70-72) and test design. Dakoda frequently operates as a technical consultant and embedded contractor, navigating FAR/DFAR, TAA/NDAA compliance and earned value management tools to align engineering with contract realities. Based in Washington, D.C., he pairs entrepreneurial experience—running a small business and startups—with deep domain expertise in tethered UAS, counter-UAS, and persistent surveillance systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Aviation Science and Management- Flight Fixed Wing, Bachelor's Degree Aviation Science and Management- Flight Fixed Wing at Middle Georgia State UniversityHigh School, High School at Creekview High School
Github Skills (128)
minecraft10
forge10
file-upload10
skyblock10
fabric10
paper-plugin10
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spigot10
java10
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bukkit10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Skizzles/SupplementalServiceableness
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
Additional Slimefun4 utilities for Void Realms
Contributions:4 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
minecraftazerothcorebundlersolid-jsadditional
Void-Realms/ExtraTools
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
A Slimefun addon to implement useful tools
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
twineslimefunminecraftazerothcoredub
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