DroneOps

About DroneOps

We believe autonomous aerial systems will transform every industry — from agriculture to infrastructure, logistics to conservation. Our mission is to make drone fleet management accessible, reliable, and intelligent.

Founded in 2023, DroneOps has grown from a garage project into a platform trusted by operators managing over 12,000 drones worldwide. We combine deep robotics expertise with modern software engineering to deliver tools that scale from 1 drone to 10,000.

Engineering Team

The people building the future of fleet intelligence.

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Dr. Maya Chen

CEO & Co-Founder

Former NASA JPL roboticist. 15 years in autonomous systems.

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Alex Reeves

CTO

Ex-DJI firmware lead. ROS core contributor. Drone racing champion.

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Priya Kapoor

VP Engineering

Scaled fleet ops at Amazon Prime Air. Distributed systems expert.

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Jamal Wright

Head of R&D

PhD in computer vision. Published 30+ papers on aerial perception.

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Sofia Rodriguez

Lead Designer

Human-robot interaction specialist. Previously at Boston Dynamics.

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Kai Tanaka

Head of Partnerships

Built Arduino education program across 40 countries.

R&D Lab

Our 15,000 sq ft R&D facility in San Jose houses a full indoor flight arena, electronics workshop, and simulation cluster. We test every firmware build through 200+ automated flight scenarios before release.

  • Indoor flight arena (40m × 30m × 15m)
  • Environmental test chamber (-20°C to +55°C)
  • 48-GPU simulation cluster
  • EMC testing lab

[ R&D Lab ]

Partnerships & Open Source

We're proud contributors to the open-source robotics ecosystem.

ROS (Robot Operating System)
Arduino
Raspberry Pi Foundation
PX4 Autopilot
NVIDIA Jetson
Qualcomm Flight

Open Source Commitment

Our core flight controller firmware, telemetry SDK, and geofence library are open source under the Apache 2.0 license. We believe open collaboration produces safer, more reliable autonomous systems.