Ishmael Rogers

Moltress is a personal R&D project exploring Rust as a foundation for UAV autonomy software, an area where C++ has historically dominated. The platform targets multirotor airframes and currently runs waypoint-following autonomy in simulation, with a clear architectural path to flight hardware.

The stack is built end-to-end in Rust: a mission-execution layer driving waypoint sequencing, a flight-control interface designed to integrate with off-the-shelf autopilots, and a telemetry pipeline for live state monitoring. Async coordination is handled by Tokio, with ros2_rust (rclrs) bridging the autonomy nodes into the broader ROS 2 ecosystem for perception and ground-station tooling.

The project doubles as a testbed for techniques developed across professional UUV and ground robotics work (behavior-tree mission logic, deterministic async scheduling, and sim-first development discipline) applied to a new airframe class.

BCL CRM is a live demonstration of the kind of operational platform built for service-business clients: salons, studios, and agencies that need a single tool to run scheduling, customer relationships, billing, and reporting without stitching together three or four SaaS subscriptions. The application covers the full operational surface for a service business: bookings and scheduling, customer and contact management, invoicing and payment workflows, role-based authentication for multi-user teams, and reporting dashboards that surface revenue, utilization, and customer trends. Each module is designed to be lifted into a client deployment and customized to the specific workflow rather than forcing the business to adapt to the software.

The stack is Next.js with TypeScript on the front end, PostgreSQL for relational data, and AWS for hosting and infrastructure. Additionally, the solution was deployed with Terraform-managed pipelines.