# Dejapong Suwaratana

> Senior Staff Engineer

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dejapong

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Engineer II @ Archer
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Archer is an aerospace company building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft focused on improving mobility in cities. The company's mission is to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. Archer is designing, manufacturing, and operating a fully electric aircraft that can carry four passengers for 60 miles at speeds of up to 150 mph while producing minimal noise. Archer's team is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

### Senior Fullstack Engineer @ Postmates Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Interaction Engineer, Aerospace Engineer, Senior Software Engineer @ Zee Aero
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
Designed and developed a browser-based ground control system which included a customizable widget based dashboard, using C, Javascript and WebGL

Within a six month deadline, lead a team to develop hardware and software for a cockpit display using C++ and OpenGL

Using React, ExpressJs, and PostgreSQL, developed data monitoring web application for searching and aggregating historic flight data

Designed, managed, and led the development of browser-based tools for tracking aircraft weight and balance history using Django and openAuth 2.0

Created a web application for comparing simulation results using Javascript, WebGL, and PHP

Created a Chrome app and Java server for synchronizing multiple vehicle change logs while offline, during field operations

Architected and developed software to route and visualize data streams across devices for engineers in 4 departments

Used laser and hotwire CNC as well as 3D printing to rapidly created cockpit mockups using plywood and fiberglass for ergonomic studies

Performed CAD-based mechanical design and environmental testing for cockpit display hardware

Created aircraft interfaces using Arduinos to replace flight controls with customized PC joysticks in the simulator

Prepared and ran over 100 computational fluid dynamic simulations on complex aircraft geometry using Python scripts to automate tasks

### UX/UI Designer @ E la Carte Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Designed interface layouts in Photoshop and converted them into C++ with QT

Coordinated software planning with a remote developer team

### Software Engineer, Design Engineer @ Desktop Aeronautics, Inc.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA
Developed graphical user interfaces for aircraft design software in Java, SWT and OpenGL

Helped create new features for parametric aircraft geometry modeling software

Designed and maintained the company website


## Education
### BS in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dejapong
- Website: https://dejapong.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22