Daniel Buchmueller

Co-founder & CTO

2024 - Current

Venture Partner

2021

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

2020

Beautifully designed, connected, and smart safes: https://silo.nyc/

Senior Vice President of Engineering

2023 - 2024

Joined a group of 18 awesome engineers as the first engineering leader and built up and led the entire engineering team (excl. the E-2 engine) to approx. 120 engineers, defined the tech roadmap including our first intermediate space station, Haven-1. Drove a culture of and acted as the responsible engineer (RE) for Haven-1 in its entirety with critical milestone reviews. Helped to hire our first CTO (with a space background!) and transitioned into being the responsible engineer on projects including hands-on leading the Avionics, Power Systems, and RF teams.

Senior Vice President Of Engineering

2021 - 2022

Responsible for all engineering and program management, spanning from core SW, EE, Embedded, ML, Robotics, Mech, Automotive, Safety, Quality, Test Engineers, TPMs, Test Operators, and Technicians. Scaled the team from 34 to 130 in twelve months and continuing: Apply at www.vay.io. We are working on a new way for driverless mobility and based in Berlin, Portland, and open for remote/hybrid for most roles.

Director of TBM Software and Systems / Chief Engineer

2021 - 2021

Responsible for all tunnel boring machine (TBM) engineering: Mechanical engineering, EE, SW, technicians. Responsible Engineer (RE) for the Prufrock II TBM. Interesting 5 weeks stint before deciding to join vay.

Chief Technology Officer

2020 - 2021

Responsible for all engineering and product functions. Designed and implemented the organizational design. Led the team first through difficult times in a pandemic and then through rapid growth from 19 to 53. Introduced focus to the product portfolio (eliminated two aircraft platforms) and drove execution: Iterated on and delivered new record-breaking aircraft platforms to customers: VOLY C10 Gemini, VOLY M20 and led a new, unannounced product through a reset; resulting in this now being on track to deliver unmatched performance in its class. Consolidated and created a standardized avionics hardware, flight software, and cloud infrastructure underpinning all Volansi platforms across defense and commercial. Established the certification path for the commercial platforms. Coached and mentored amazing team members through their growth and trying times. Implemented a structured patent harvesting process, resulting in new patents being filed on a continuous basis. Helped enable the Series B round of USD 50M.

Vice President, Head of Drone Cargo by Airbus

2018 - 2020

Drone Cargo by Airbus aka Project Vesper is a joint initiative between Airbus and XAG. Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heT1HYaBmJo

Director Of Engineering

2016 - 2018

To serve cancer patients and our customers by dramatically improving treatment and accelerating research. Flatiron Health organizes the world’s oncology information and makes it useful for patients, physicians, life science companies and researchers.

Prime Air UK Lead & Co-Founder Prime Air

2015 - 2016

I build up and lead the Amazon Prime Air UK team.

Engineering Manager & Co-Founder Prime Air

2014 - 2015

I lead the "Fly" team of Prime Air. We are hiring! http://www.bit.ly/primeairjobs

Software Engineer & Co-Founder Prime Air

2013 - 2014

I started Amazon Prime Air: What started as an idea over coffee with Gur turned into a real, full-blown Amazon project. If you are passionate about UAVs, embedded programming, robotics, we should talk - we are hiring! http://bit.ly/primeairjobs

Software Engineer Amazon Go

2013 - 2013

From: https://www.amazon.com/go - Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required. We created the world’s most advanced shopping technology so you never have to wait in line. With our Just Walk Out Shopping experience, simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products you want, and go! No lines, no checkout. (No, seriously.)