Joby Aviation

Since leaving Skydio, I’ve been a Manufacturing Engineering Lead at Joby Aviation, where I’ve led the EPU Inverter Manufacturing Engineering Team. Since joining, my team and I have:

Worked closely with the design team to solve some fundamental issues between parts quality, design, and manufacturing process.
Introduced completely new processes, like full-assembly Selective Soldering and Immersion Cleaning to help solve some of those prior mentioned issues and improve process flow.
Worked to ensure production capacity will keep up with our expanding production needs, scaling from 12 airplanes a year worth of Inverters, to 48 by the end of 2026.
Performed all of the line balancing and resourcing analyses, cycle time studies, OEE calculations, and test plan development and execution to make sure we’re meeting our output goals, while also ensuring quality and functionality.
Worked cross functionally to ensure type-certifiability of the EPU Inverter and its production process, by moving through the TC Checklist, TC Audit, and TC process for the EPU Inverter.

Skydio

I joined Skydio as Employee number ~80 (and the company grew to 800+ employees before I left), and the first dedicated Manufacturing Engineering hire. In my time there, I helped bring 2+ generations of product family from the engineering design phase, through to mass manufacturing. While primarily responsible for standing up our production lines in California, I was also the lead for standing up a CM final assembly line in Texas, and conducted vendor visits with CMs in Asia to help qualify the production of parts.

I wore many hats at Skydio. Notably:

I designed, assembled, and deployed assembly and test fixtures for all accessories and 3x different drone programs
I built test plans with the EE, ME, and Test teams to ensure adequate test coverage on the manufacturing line
I was the lead Manufacturing Engineer for the first two generations of Skydio Enterprise Controller, the accessories for Skydio 2/2+, and For Skydio X2 and X10
I stood up a Texas based CM for Skydio 2+ and helped scale them to over 100 drones/day
I was the Test Engineer in charge of camera testing for all Drones, and built the test cells for the full drone systems, and stood up calibration and test cells for the individual cameras, with input from the optical, EE, and manufacturing software teams