Emergent Space Technologies
Mr. Kendall Roberson is the Director of Product Development and is responsible for flight and ground software product development, deployment, management, and marketing. He currently leads multiple projects that are advancing and deploying flight software autonomy products for use on civil and national security space missions. In addition, he serves as the Lead Software Engineer for the RISE contract at AFRL/RVE in Albuquerque, NM. Previously, he served as a lead for the mission control software team at NASA GSFC developing functionality supporting missions MMS, PACE, WFIRST, GEDI, RAVEN, OSAM-1, and others. Prior to joining Emergent in 2016, Mr. Roberson enjoyed a diverse career in software development leadership.
He advanced aerospace state-of-the-art in launch vehicle flight software at Firefly Space Systems, test site and liquid propulsion flight software at Virgin Galactic, and avionics, test, and launch systems for Falcon 9 and Dragon at SpaceX. He advanced business automation state-of-the-art at American Express, Siebel Systems, and ISI. He advanced petrochemical state-of-the-art in industrial automation, measurement, and control at Tolteq Original Engineering, Daniel Industries, and DeltaSoft.