Jesse Brockmann is a senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience. Jesse works for a large corporation designing real-time simulation software in C and C++. He is a long-time maker, and first purchased a gyro and other components from SparkFun in 2006 to build a rover. He participated in the Sparkfun AVC from 2014 to 2017, won the heavyweight class in 2016, and won the classic AVC in 2017.