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Hello there, I am Sebastian

Juan Sebastian Dueñas

Hardware Engineer at Fly4Future

Mechatronics Engineer motivated to search innovative solutions and build products through the lens of Engineering and Optimization. Strong focus on hardware–software integration in robotics and UAVs, with experience in CAD modeling, design, sensor data processing and doing programing on the side.

Collaborative Robot Safety Design & Deployment
Technical Support Fundamentals
Software engineer fundamentals
Hard Working
Fast Learner
Problem Solving
Leadership
Team Work
Communication

Projects

kiwiWeatherReport
kiwiWeatherReport
2024

Weather information dashboard, relevant for kiwibot’s field operations team to make decisions during the robots’operation

Data Science Looker Studio Dashboard
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Autonomous UGV PAI
Autonomous UGV PAI
Contributor 2022

Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) designed as a platform for agricultural applications.

Robotics Integration
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Tile-Tech
Tile-Tech
Contributor 2023

Automation for a ceramic tile production process

Automation Digital twin PLC NX mechatronics designer project management
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Stewart Gough Platform
Stewart Gough Platform
Stewart Gough Platform
2022

Maintenance and repair of a Stewart Gough parallel robot platform used for research and education at the Colombian National University.

Robotics Maintenance
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Data science notebook
Data science notebook
2020

Notes taken and work done while coursing the Data Science specialization courses, A Coursera and John Hopkins joint effort towards teaching data science.

Data Science R
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Experiences

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Fly4Future.

Feb 2025 - on going

Prague, Czech Republic

R&D company focused on the development of custom drone solutions in the intersection between university, research groups and industrial applications.

Hardware Engineer

Feb 2025 - on going

Responsibilities:
  • Work on project orientated development of custom drone solutions contributing on the mechanical design and prototyping, CAD modeling, integration of components and delivery of complete drones.
kiwibot

Jul 2023 - Dec 2024

Remote

Joined a Colombian startup working revolutionizing the last mile delivery industry with autonomous robots.

Service Desk Engineer

Feb 2024 - Dec 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Incident Management and Response; Provide first-line investigation and diagnosis of all incidents and service requests.
  • Technical Support and Troubleshooting; Resolve technical issues related to the robot delivery system, software applications, and IT infrastructure.
  • System Monitoring and Maintenance; Monitor IT systems and applications for issues that could impact service quality or uptime.
  • Quality and Continuous Improvement; Contribute to the continuous improvement of the IT service by providing feedback on recurring issues and suggesting enhancements.
JR Maintenance Engineer

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023

Responsibilities:
  • During this role I assumed responsibility for overseeing the smooth operation of a fleet of 15 delivery robots, executing the thorough inspection, diagnostics, troubleshooting and performing the necessary repairs. I successfully maintained the robots in optimal working condition, applying my skills in electronic diagram analysis and proficiently troubleshooting and repairing electronic boards within the mechatronic system.
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CETIA Colombian Air Force

Apr 2022 - Aug 2022

Madrid, Colombia

CETIA Aeronautical Innovation Technology Center, is one of the four Research Centers of the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation, Aeronautical and Space Education Department (JEAES) from the Colombian Air Force. CETIA is responsible for the development of research and innovation projects in the field of aeronautical and space technologies, with a focus on the design, construction and operation of remotely piloted aircraft.

Engineering Intern

Apr 2022 - Aug 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Student internship focused on the development and research in the design and construction of remotely piloted aircraft. Development of a drone’s obstacle avoidance system were commands were controlled by a microcontroller and decision taken based on signal feed from single beam lidar sensors.
Colombian National University.

Feb 2019 - Jun 2020

Bogota, Colombia

While coursing my studies I engaged with the university in activities working as

Numerical Methods Teaching Assitent

Feb 2020 - Jun 2020

Responsibilities:
  • help the professor with the development, implementation and presentation of representative examples of equation solvers, using mathematical software tools such as MATLAB.
Par Lider

Feb 2019 - Jun 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Accompany and support students in the area of physics specifically in the subject mechanics fundamentals
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Kumon.

Augst 2019 - Dec 2019

Bogotá

Center Assistant

Augst 2019 - Dec 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Help students learn english and math

Education

Colombian National University
2016-2024
Mechatronics Engineer
Publications:
Taken Courses:
  • Servomechanisms
  • Mechatronic Design
  • Signals and Systems
  • Dynamics
  • Basic Electronics Workshop
Platzi
2021-2022
online learner
Taken Courses:
  • Python
  • Git and Github
  • Software Engineer Fundamentals

Featured Posts

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Quotebook

This is a collection of quotes I found interesting in one way or another. Literature The fact we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. — Douglas Adams Así también un orbe entero, con toda su pequeñez y su grandeza, puede ubicarse en una estrella que titila en la inmensidad del espacio, y así como la mera ciencia humana es capaz de dividir un rayo de luz y analizar su composición, así tambien otras inteligencias más excelsas podrán leer acaso en el tenue brillar de esta tierra nuestra todo pensamiento y toda acción, todo vicio y toda virtud de cada uno de los seres responsables que la pueblan.

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    WatchList

    In the current landscape, where the world overflows with abundance of content I am struggling with the question of where to focus my attention. When the the main constrain is time choosing what is worth spending your energy on is of most importance. This is a (on going) curated list to navigate this question. Movies worth watching; books that have shape me in one way or another and those works I have yet to read and one day I would get down to reading them.

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      About the site

      The about section holds a formal presentation of who I am. This however is a more lay back version where I intend to put together some miscellaneous information and some of the thoughts that come up while doing these website. What I am currently interested in Computers Organizations Information Robots Cybernetics How do you justify your existence? This is a phrase that has stuck with me since the first time I read it in The Tales of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov. Asimov is one of my favorite authors. He encapsulates a genuine wonder for the world and all what is around him. Through the lense of science fiction he builds a reflection of our own world with little sprinkles of speculation here and there to make something that feels foreign, and yet very familiar. So my way of answering this question would be.

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        Book reviews

        Books, Books and more books To the Castle and back by Vaclav Havel To castle and back is a boring book. We got warned about it from the start. One can only imagine the book has succeeded, if removing the glamour of being the head of state (of Czechoslovakia and then the Czech republic) was its goal. One gets the impression that the job is and endless treadmill of writing speeches, peppered here and there with responsibilities on preparing events/dinners for foreign diplomats and the occasional political squabble. And yet it also let’s through some of Vaclav personality and his inability to scape it all. As he only knows one way of acting, and this is to appease his always torturing conscience. Dissuade the right people of pursuing office this cannot. As just as Vaclav they will be compelled to oblige. In order to scape the hardest torture … acting against one’s own beliefs.

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          PyCon Colombian 2023 lightning talk

          Computer Programming for Everybody. El sueño de que cada persona pudiera programar su propia computadora impulso el desarrollo Python. Construyamos el próximo proyecto de alto impacto. Conectando con la comunidad de ROS Proyecto de traducción de documentación de ROS 2 Grupo de usuarios de ROS en español discourse The Next Computer Programming for Everybody

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            Of interest

            Because I seem to be pretty fond on lists, here are some more, of interesting institutions universities and people doing amazing work. Universities ETH Zürich. Autonomous Systems Lab, Roland Siegwart robotics system lab DelftTU. Software architecture https://github.com/tudelft delftswa.github.io Caltech MIT UC Berkeley Stanford UPV (universidad politecnica de Valencia) URJC universidad rey juan carlos Universidad carlos iii madrid UC3M Stuttgart university, engineering cybernetics. Master of Science (MSc) focused in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from University of Stuttgar. Twente university. Sid Sijbrandij gitlab, roboteam, Student report Eindhoven TU/e paises bajos, github Tech United Eindhoven Politecnico de lausanne FH Aachen TU München Munich TU Berlin TU Dresden Czech Technical University in Prague TU ilmenau.Technical Cybernetics and Systems Theory University of Waterloo university of Alberta Hong Kong Polytechnic University university of washington seattle West Virginia University TU Braunschweig Robot Swarms TU Kaiserslautern University of Nothinham. numberphile IIT Gandhinagar Fachhochschule Wedel University of Applied Sciences People Paul Graham. YCombinator Lex Fridman Keenan Wyrobek. zipline Sid Sijbrandij. gitlab Raffaello d’andrea. Drones Robert Playter. Boston Dynamics Lorenz Meier. Auterion drone company Peter Corke. robotics toolbox Stephen Wolfram Professor Jeff Hoffman. Introduction to aerospace engineerign: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight Randy Pausch. Alice python lecture Don Norman. Father of UX Rich Harris. svelte’s creator Dario Floreano. Bio inspired robots Eric Tsui. knowledge management Cleve Moler. Mathworks creator Fabian Riether and Sertac Karaman minidrone MATLAB Jaron Lanier Who is civilization for Arie van Deursen. software arquitecture DelftTU Rodney Brooks. director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Aníbal Ollero. Aerial core consorsium Kimberly McGuire and Ramón Roche. Aerial ROS Ali Agha. Principal Investigator and Research Technologist at NASA’s JPL and Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) Michael Nielsen. Quatum computing Vadim Pisarevsky. openCV developer Homayoon Kazerooni. robotics UC berkeley Carlos Galeano. NASA J. Edward Colgate. haptics John Kenneth Salisbury. robotics haptics Brendan Schulman Federico Faggin. synaptics Victoria Lemieux. Electronic Document & Records Management System Implementation Gen Sasaki. Mathworks Roger D. Launius. chief historian NASA John Carmack. Best programmer (allegedly) Sergei Lupashin Adrian Bowyer. RepRap Peo Hansen. Migration Rob Cohee. Product Manager Fusion360 Institutions DLR institute of robotics and mechatronics Bell Labs NASA JPL Companies Boston Dynamics Zipline Anybotics Auterion Framework Ocado Gitlab Intrinsic Amazon robotics DJI Formlabs Markforged Prusa Onshape Universal robots Wing JLCPCB Mathworks kiwibot Esri

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