#HumansofZipline
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Brett Alo works on our Test Team to build machines that measure the durability and strength of our drone components, and is also on our Drop team that deploys our mechanical and electrical systems in new markets. Before Zipline, Brett was a firefighter in California for 9 yrs - 2 of which he worked helitack on a helicopter. His passion has been anything remote control, videography, motorcycles, jeeps, and the outdoors.
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“When I joined, we were less than 25 people up on the hill in Half Moon Bay. There was a cat in the build shop that might randomly jump out at you, and cows that strolled through our test site and ate the cables. Zipline felt like an RC hobby shop on the mountain, not a Silicon Valley tech firm. Just Freaking Do It was our motto. We’d have an insanely difficult problem to solve and Keller would come out and tell everyone to JFDI. We all had one mission to save lives and would work together on that problem until it was solved. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀...