esden received his degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences, Rosenheim in 2008 and acted as research assistant at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group at T.U. Munich until 2009. In 2010 he began work at Joby Energy Inc. as an Embedded Systems and Motor Control Engineer. In 2011 he co-founded Transition Robotics, Inc. where he serves as the Embedded Systems and Avionics Engineer. He is a long term member of the Open-Source community and is core developer of Paparazzi UAV, libopencm3 cortex-m3 open source firmware library, open-bldc open source brushless motor controller, he is also involved with many other Open-Source projects and submitting patches here and there. ;) Twitter: @esden Facebook: esdentem http://www.esden.net