Our Vision
Odin Autonomy envisions a future where drones and other robotic systems evolve from complex tools to reliable teammates, providing each operator with wider situational awareness, faster action, and better mission outcomes.
Technology For Operators By Operators
Odin was founded by operators and researchers who have lived the problem they are solving. The team brings together a unique combination with deep expertise in aerospace artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and distributed software, alongside decades of hands-on public-safety and first-response experience — from research labs at CU Boulder to the fireground and the flight line.
Meet The Team
Hunter M. Ray, PhD
Founder & CEO
As a Lieutenant with the Boulder Emergency Squad, Hunter has five years experience leading teams and deploying drones on swiftwater rescues, wildland fires, and law enforcement operations with the Boulder Emergency Squad. He holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from CU Boulder in human-robot teaming, engineered fault-tolerant guidance and navigation architectures at Draper Laboratory, and deployed a CubeSat from the International Space Station as an undergraduate at Brown University.
Andy Amalfitano
Chief Operating Officer
Andy co-founded Team Wildfire and served as its President and COO, taking an emergency management technology company through its seed round and product development. He brings thirty years in public safety operations as a rescuer, and Chief of the Boulder Emergency Squad. He was VP of Global Operations at iCarnegie Global Learning, and holds a Master of Science in Business Continuity Management.
Ben Kraske
AI Architect
Ben is a doctoral candidate in aerospace engineering sciences at CU Boulder and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, with published work across robotics, aerospace, and artificial intelligence venues. His research is on explainable autonomous decision-making under uncertainty — getting a machine to choose well when the picture is incomplete and changing.
Jake Tucker
Software Engineer
Jake worked in CU Boulder's Collaborative Human Robot Intelligence Lab on the research that became ODIN's foundation, and led the university's underwater robotics team through complex systems integration. At Ricoh USA he engineered a programmatic robot control system with spatial intelligence web-based digital twins.
Samiksha Patil
Software Engineer
Samiksha built cloud-scale pipelines at BI Incorporated that processed over 35 million sensor and GPS records a day, along with the agentic AI workflows that triaged anomalies in that telemetry. She spent two years at JPMorgan Chase engineering real-time payment infrastructure and leading the chaos testing that kept it fault-tolerant in production, and holds a master's in computer science from CU Boulder.
Larry Berkin
Advisor
Larry brings 20 years of drone and defense industry leadership to our team, providing the strategic guidance needed to accelerate our next phase of growth. Larry’s deep expertise in the DIU’s Blue UAS program, high-profile industry M&A (including AirMap and FlightWave), and global corporate partnerships (ex-BlackBerry) will be pivotal as we scale our commercial and defense footprints.