Cotton Anderson

Principal Engineer

Cotton Anderson holds an MS degree in optical engineering and brings 20 years of product development and deployment experience in optics to Syght.

Focusing primarily on cutting edge technologies in the optical domain, Cotton has contributed to the design, development, and introduction of multiple products. Most recently, he has been leveraging his experience as an individual contributor to organize and lead successful teams that challenge the technical status quo at Fathom Radiant developing optical transceivers and Orion Space Systems with CubeSats and lidar. Prior to that, Cotton honed his technical skills working on product development in display technologies, optical manufacturing, and holographic data storage.

Outside of the working world, Cotton stays busy with his family, taking jaunts into the woods, and kicking a soccer ball around as often as possible.