# Morgan Swanson > Helping space vehicles find their way Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/morganswanson Self starter and fast learner with resilience in the face of challenging problems. I’ve prototyped data pipelines for industrial vehicles, machine vision, and natural language. ## Work Experience ### Technical Program Manager @ Space-ng Jan 2025 – Present Delivering advanced capabilities with our Sol3 product ### Product Engineer @ Space-ng Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 Designed and developed mission operations procedures for vision navigation system Built cinematic imaging system for blue ghost mission Supported mission operations on console for Blue Ghost lunar lander ### Validation and Integration Engineering @ Space-ng Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Austin, TX Worked directly with CEO and founding team to integrate vision navigation system with Blue Ghost lunar lander Rapid prototyping and coordination of CI/CD and HIL testbed, increased execution speed over 10x ### CEO and Founder @ TractorCloud Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Luis Obispo, CA Founded company to help Agricultural Engineers discover opportunities to improve equipment reliability Raised $65,000 in funding through grants from strategic investors, accelerator programs, and pitch competitions Sourced, developed, and secured design partnerships with large, industry-leading farms with 2,500+ assets total Prototyped end-to-end IoT remote monitoring and analytics application with CAN, Raspberry Pi, AWS, InfluxDB Recruited team of advisors and individual contributors to deliver rapid iteration of business model and product ### Guitar Performance @ Unknown Jan 2013 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area & San Luis Obispo Performance in over 150 paid gigs, in many ensembles including Rock, Pop, R&B, and Carnatic (Indian) Fusion Managed band finance, accounting, and go-to-market, earning over $50,000 in revenues and 3x YoY growth ### Research And Teaching Assistant - Artificial Intelligence @ Cal Poly Computer Science and Software Engineering Department Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Luis Obispo, California Grading, creating lab assignments, and occasional lectures ### Validation Engineering Manager @ Dynium Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Wenatchee, WA Worked directly with CEO and co-founders to validate orchard robot prototype on large-scale prospect site Established data acquisition processes, built software and support systems, hired and trained technician team Identified, diagnosed, and helped to remedy safety-critical system-level faults, improving safety and reliability ### Product Validation Engineer @ Daimler Trucks North America Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Portland, Oregon Built devices to simulate common failures Wrote software to automatically evaluate performance of systems Trained a neural network to detect failures using cameras ### Workshop Instructor - C Programming for Embedded Systems @ Cal Poly Computer Engineering Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Luis Obispo, California Prepared curriculum, lecture two hours per week, and conduct office hour. ### Instructional Student Assistant - Digital Design @ Cal Poly Computer Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Luis Obispo, California Area Created a growth oriented culture where students are encouraged to iterate on their design and look for creative optimizations. Communicated digital design and CPU prototyping concepts and evaluated documentation of their designs. ### Assistant Instructor @ Galileo Learning Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Lafayette, California Taught fundamentals of Java programming and basic engineering practices. Demonstrated communication and leadership skills. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/morgan-swanson-736798117 --- Source: https://flows.cv/morganswanson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/morganswanson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29