Adrien Perkins

Adrien Perkins is the co-founder and VP of engineering at Xona Space Systems. Adrien has also worked as a content developer for Udacity and as a research assistant and lead software developer for Stanford University and Callsnapp, respectively.

Perkins has helped shape the direction and content of the brand new Flying Car Nanodegree program by developing the content for initial projects in the course. The project content included defining goals and requirements to align with and reinforce the lesson content and writing support code and example solutions for the projects. In addition to software projects, Perkins developed an optional project to enable students to test their control code developed in the course on two real drones: the Crazyflie and the Intel RTF drone. This optional project development included writing the support code for controlling the drone via a python API and writing lesson content for introducing students to typical drone systems and how their code interacts with those systems.

Adrien Perkins has a Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, a Master of Science from Stanford University in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, and a Bachelor's degree from Rutgers University in Mechanical Engineering. Adrien also has a certification from the Federal Aviation Administration in Remote Pilot Certificate.

Their manager is Brian Manning, Co-Founder & CEO. They work with Miguel Seun - Operations Lead, Europe, Tyler Reid - Co-Founder & CTO, and Bryan Chan - Co-Founder & Director of Business Development.