Software Engineer · Systems Architect

Robert Coffman

Principal Software Engineer

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About

Engineering at the intersection of defense, cloud, and AI

I'm Robert Coffman, a software engineer and systems architect who has spent a career moving between mission-critical defense systems and large-scale enterprise platforms. From fusing radar and RF data for counter-drone systems to migrating global insurance infrastructure to the cloud, I build software that has to work under pressure — real-time, distributed, and resilient by design.

Focus

Distributed Systems

Domains

Defense · Cloud · AI

Stack

Java · Python · AWS

Experience

Where the work has taken me

Dedrone

Radar Integration

Counter-UAS Systems

  • —Integrated radar feeds into real-time drone detection pipeline
  • —Fused multi-sensor tracking for airspace awareness
  • —Hardened data paths for high-availability field deployments

Dedrone

RF Sensor Fusion

Signal Intelligence

  • —Correlated RF signatures across distributed sensor arrays
  • —Built low-latency ingestion for streaming spectrum data
  • —Improved detection confidence via cross-sensor fusion

Dedrone

Battlefield Systems

Drone Defense & AI

  • —Shipped integrations for battlefield counter-drone platforms
  • —Applied AI models to classify and prioritize aerial threats
  • —Worked across radar, RF, and EO/IR sensor domains

Euler Hermes / Allianz

Globalization

Enterprise Platform Engineering

  • —Engineered globalization layer for multi-region platform
  • —Standardized localization across enterprise services
  • —Partnered with global teams on platform architecture

Euler Hermes / Allianz

Cloud Migration

AWS & Microservices

  • —Migrated legacy enterprise systems to AWS cloud infrastructure
  • —Decomposed monoliths into resilient microservices
  • —Drove reliability and scalability across the platform

Cox Automotive

Platform Engineering

Enterprise Software

  • —Built and maintained large-scale automotive platform services
  • —Collaborated cross-functionally on core product systems
  • —Delivered features across the full stack

No Inc.

Software Engineering

Product Development

  • —Contributed across backend and infrastructure systems
  • —Built tooling to support fast-moving product iteration
  • —Worked end-to-end from design through deployment

Highlights

Drone Defense & AI

Applied Intelligence

  • —AI-assisted threat classification for aerial systems
  • —Real-time sensor fusion across radar, RF, and video
  • —Systems engineered for mission-critical reliability

Skills

Tools of the trade

Languages

JavaPythonC++TypeScript

Frameworks

SpringMicroservicesReact / Next.jsNode.js

Cloud & Infra

AWSDocker / KubernetesCI/CDDistributed Systems

Contact

Let's build something

Open to conversations about defense tech, cloud architecture, or anything at the edge of AI and systems engineering.

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