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Olaf Hichwa

Co-Founder and CTO

About

Olaf Hichwa is co-founder and CTO of Neros, where he leads hardware design, system integration, and battlefield communications for the company's Archer FPV drone. A former teenage drone-racing champion, he founded OlaFPV while still in school and shipped more than 4,000 units of racing electronics, including what he describes as the world's first single-sided 20x20 mm flight controller. Before co-founding Neros with Soren Monroe-Anderson, whom he met in 2017 at a drone-racing competition in Muncie, Indiana, he was a hardware systems engineer at Skywalk and studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Previous roles

  • Founder, OlaFPV
  • Hardware Systems Engineer, Skywalk

Notable work

  • Neros
  • Drones
  • FPV Hardware
  • Embedded Systems
  • Co-founder

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