I'm Gustavo Alvarado, an Ecuadorian mechatronics engineer (ESPOL). I build software for unmanned aircraft: operator apps, real-time computer vision and embedded Linux.
Currently R&D engineer at Robiotec: drone specialist and software engineer/architect.
- 🎥 Built solo the operator app for a military-use surveillance camera: video latency from about 2.5 s to about 0.5 s over a satellite link.
- 🛩️ 20+ fixed-wing VTOL flights in 2026 at sites above 3,200 m ASL, most as pilot in command.
- 👁️ Took a YOLOv8 detection system to production on NVIDIA Jetson: code optimisation, uv migration and actuator triggering, with the TensorRT integration co-developed with a teammate.
- 📡 Enabled a 93 km unsupervised point-to-point VTOL mission.
| Languages | Embedded & UAS | Vision & AI | Apps & tools |
|---|---|---|---|
- rc-boat-controller-esp32: ESP32 firmware that reads SBUS from an RC receiver and drives a boat's motor ESCs in real time, with constant-speed control.
- flight_logs_analyzer: flight-log analysis built with marimo, Polars and Plotly Express.
- opencv-cuda-ros-jetson: script to build OpenCV with CUDA on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, ROS bridge compatible.
- Nested-Virtualization-Proxmox: guide, in Spanish, to running a nested Proxmox VE hypervisor inside Windows 10.
- pkgbuilds: AUR package build contributions.

