Autonomous drone delivery has long been the stuff of science fiction, but ongoing advances have

moved the space from experimental to operational.

Zipline is one of the leading companies in this space, with drones that change between missions

and fly autonomously to deliver packages directly to customers.

Kyle Medonia is the VP of Application software and IT at Zipline,

and she previously spent a decade as an engineer at SpaceX. In this episode, Kyle joins Gregorvan

to discuss how Zipline software stack powers end-to-end autonomous delivery, the engineering challenges of managing drone fleets at

scale, and how the team approaches software releases for safety-critical systems. Gregor Vand is a

security-focused technologist, having previously been a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance,

and general software engineering companies.

He is based in Singapore and can be found via his profile at van.hk or on LinkedIn.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

My guest today is Kyle Medonia.

Hi, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, awesome to have you here today, Kyle.

We're going to be talking about all things, Autonomous Flying, which I don't think we've ever had an episode yet on this, on Software Engineering Daily. So you are at the

company Zipline, which we're going to get into in a second, as we like to do on Software Engineering

Daily. I believe currently you're the VP of application software and IT at Zipline.

You do have quite an interesting career path to getting to Zipline as well.

I think that would be interesting just to hear about and sort of how it influenced, I guess,

you then joining Zipline.

Yeah, my background is all computer science.

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