Eric Hauser is the VP of R&D DroneDeploy where he leads the product, engineering, security and infrastructure teams. DroneDeploy is the leading software platform for commercial drones. DroneDeploy's software is used by 5,000+ customers in 180+ countries, performing 1M+ flights/year. The company focuses on large enterprise use-cases, operating fleets of up to 500 drones, across some of the world's biggest companies, in energy, construction and agriculture. 

Before starting DroneDeploy in 2017, Eric led IoT engineering at Salesforce and held engineering leadership positions at ExactTarget and Schneider Electric.