Raven
An 8-stage solo roadmap from tilt-rotor eVTOL to a 4-drone autonomous swarm.
EV-stack hardware engineer translating battery / BMS / drive / control experience into aerospace.
- Tilt-rotor airframe with two wing-tip rotors and a tail rotor
- Custom Li-ion pack + BMS with cell balancing and thermal monitoring
- STM32-based flight controller with IMU + barometer + GPS fusion
- Mid-stage: lidar + visual-inertial odometry, full GNC stack
- Late-stage: shared mission state across 4 vehicles
Raven is a self-directed eVTOL program. I'm building it the way a startup would build a flight vehicle: hardware first, vertically integrated, on a fixed timeline. Eight stages, each with a deliverable I can fly or measure. The end state is a coordinated 4-drone swarm running shared mission state on aerospace-grade autonomy hardware.
Why I'm building this
Recruiters at Skydio, Anduril, Shield AI, Zipline and AeroVironment all want hardware engineers who can own a propulsion / autonomy stack end-to-end. The fastest way to prove I can do that is to actually do it — solo, on a clock, in public. Raven is the proof artifact.
8 stages, one airframe at a time.
Where Raven is today and what's next.