UAV Technical Lead · UAV Integration, Repair & Flight Test
25+ years in aircraft avionics and unmanned systems · Ex-Pakistan Air Force · PMP®
- Now: UAV Technical Lead at GGAS Aviation Services, leading 30 engineers and technicians on UAV maintenance, repair and ground support.
- Fleet results: built a 100% in-house repair capability and returned 4,000+ UAVs to service.
- Before: 20 years in Pakistan Air Force avionics, jet engines and ISR UAV systems; 3,300+ hours of ISR UAV missions.
- Heavy VTOL: maintenance, integration and training on VTOL UAVs up to 400 kg.
- Payloads: LiDAR, magnetometer, hyperspectral, thermal, photogrammetry, methane detection.
A 14-week in PX4 / ArduPilot integration, flight-log analysis and flight test planning, with a 600 kg twin-boom quadplane VTOL as the target aircraft. Every week ends with something on GitHub.
| Case study | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| 🛠️ | Real field repair cases (R-001 …) | in progress |
| 🧪 | S-001: GPS loss injected in VTOL SITL, diagnosed from the log | planned |
| 🔌 | I-001: payload / camera pod integration | planned |
| F-001: 60 kg quadplane flight test plan | planned |
➡️ Portfolio: uav-integration-portfolio
Autopilots: PX4 · ArduPilot (QuadPlane) Ground stations: QGroundControl · Mission Planner Protocols & interfaces: MAVLink · UART · I2C · CAN / DroneCAN Simulation & logs: Gazebo SITL · Flight Review · PlotJuggler Software: C++ · Python · Linux (Ubuntu) · Git / GitHub
Hands-on: flight controller, GNSS and datalink fault finding · component-level repair and soldering · firmware updates and calibration · payload integration and calibration · maintenance programs, logs and spare-parts control · technician and operator training (200+ trained).
GACA UAS Operator (Saudi Arabia) · EASA UAS Open Category A1/A3 & A2 · PMP® · NEBOSH IGC · IOSH Managing Safely
Repair cases are written without client names, locations, serial numbers or restricted documents.