Three engineers who have spent careers solving this problem
Built from Northern Virginia defense primes and DARPA programs. Bootstrapped to stay focused on the technical work.
Kestrelsense Team
Defense prime and DARPA backgrounds. Focused on NPU firmware, avionics interfaces, and secure boot validation.
Eli Carter
CEO & Co-Founder
Systems engineer with experience at defense prime contractors in Chantilly, VA, focused on ISR payload integration and avionics bus architecture. Identified the latency gap that became the KS-100 during a live-fire ISR evaluation. Led SBIR Phase I application and technical program management through early engineering sample development.
Nora Langley
CTO & Co-Founder
Firmware architect with background in avionics interface engineering and MIL-STD-1553 bus implementations across multiple unmanned systems programs. Leads KS-100 hardware design, secure boot chain architecture, and MIL-DTL-38999 mechanical interface qualification. Previous work includes avionics firmware for Group-3 UAS platforms.
Reuben Achebe
Head of Edge AI Engineering
Neural network quantization specialist with three generations of NPU optimization work on DARPA-funded programs. Leads inference model architecture, quantized transformer design for the custom NPU, and multi-modal sensor fusion pipeline development. Holds expertise in model compression techniques applicable to hard-real-time inference requirements on power-constrained hardware.
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