Dennis Zollo
Principal System Engineer at Swift Navigation
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Zollo is a Principal System Engineer with 11+ years building and shipping safety-critical embedded systems across aerospace, robotics, and autonomy. Trained in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on C/C++ firmware and Python data analysis to drive product and technical decisions. His career spans early-stage product leadership at Swift Navigation, safety-critical firmware at Argo AI, and flight-control integration on research Black Hawk helicopters, where he operated systems in flight. Known for anticipating risks and creating processes—he built teams, test frameworks, and interface controls that raised firmware quality and reduced field issues. Comfortable communicating with engineers and non-engineers alike, he thrives where breadth, pragmatism, and rigorous engineering intersect. Currently based in New York, he’s seeking roles that leverage his cross-domain systems expertise in aerospace, robotics, IoT, or medical devices.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Embedded Software Engineering Classes Computer Science, Embedded Software Engineering Classes Computer Science at San José State UniversityVictor Senior High SchoolBachelor of Science and Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science and Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
French, English
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Github Skills (54)
robotics10
github-projects10
swift10
c-library10
receiver10
ros10
python9
linux9
firmware9
arduino9
cube8
scientific-computing8
bencode8
numpy8
rover8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
swift-nav/piksi_tools
Mar 2015 - May 2021
Tools for the Piksi GNSS receiver.
Contributions:7 reviews, 1164 commits, 1043 PRs in 6 years 3 months
gnssgnss-receiverpiksireceiver
denniszollo/piksi_tools
Apr 2015 - Jul 2020
Tools for the Piksi GNSS receiver.
Contributions:537 pushes, 485 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 4 months
gnssgnss-receiverpiksireceiver
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