Ron Dias recently joined BirdDog as a Senior Software Engineer. Prior to joining BD, Ron worked at Frequency Electronics as the senior engineer for the Advance Engineering Division.

Experience

2023 — NowBirdDogFull Stack Embedded Systems Engineer

2023 — Now

Designed, implemented: Embedded Dante/NDI video encoder from scratch for low-latency real-time video.

Led HW bring up of new ARM SoC, software development, and core 4K video pipelines.

Internal DevOps system for automatic software updates, system monitoring, and end-to-end test via Runner CI/CD.

2019 — 2023Frequency Electronics, Inc.Senior Control Systems Engineer

2019 — 2023

Formulated: Critical RF control system (multi-million-dollar) Naval Research; lead RF SoC Development; Space/Terrestrial applications

Implemented: Laser + RF control; Core timing + clock control system; HW enabled steering to hyperfine transition; critical real-time controls

Lead: Real-Time Processing, FPGA Development, Application Processing

2020 — 2021Stealth StartupCo-Founder

2020 — 2021

Designed: Control circuitry to prevent motorcycle collision before their occurrence; Utilizes AI to predict possible collisions.

Developed: RT vehicle tracker (Kalman Filter, RANSAC, DeepSORT, LIDAR point-cloud clustering/segmentation) for Jetson Nano.

Simulated: Fusing of LIDAR and Camera images; planar model fitting; Improved: frame by frame accuracy; Modeled: Vehicle Collisions

2018 — 2020Hofstra UniversityResearch Assistant

2018 — 2020

Semi-autonomous drone deployment of footbridges in dynamic environments using real-time video processing on DJI Phantom 4

Developed control system that combines computer vision and drones to perform automated UAV flight task in dynamic environments.

2020 — 2020Hofstra UniversityEngineering Assistant

2020 — 2020

Built a Light Plate Apparatus aiding in Optogenetic Synthesis at Cornell University

Education

2016 — 2020

Hofstra University

Bachelor of Science - BS

2016 — 2020