Las Vegas, NV

Donovan
Cadelina

I build LED walls by hand and teach machines to fold shirts. Ten years in live production. Now pursuing robotics for defense logistics.

Donovan Cadelina

250+

LED Walls Built

265

Days Worked in 2025

10

Years in AV

1,200

Panel Build (Largest)

Production

I've built more LED walls than most people have seen.

Corporate, concert, convention, and touring. Ground support and rigged. All major manufacturers. Consistently first to finish on set and strike of tiles.

LED

Full builds start to finish. ROE, Absen, Unilumin, INFiLED. NovaStar NovaLCT, MCTRL, and Brompton SX40 processing. Troubleshooting dead panels, data signal, power distribution, and live show repairs.

Video

ATEM and vMix switching. Camera shading via CCU. SDI/HDMI signal flow. P1Harmony North America Tour — all front-of-house video and comms.

Crew Leadership

Steward and Crew Lead — small to large crews. Client interface, show logistics, crew coordination while maintaining hands-on build work.

Also in the Toolkit

8 years lead carpentry. Audio on Allen & Heath, Yamaha CL/QL. Wireless mic systems. Ground truss, deck builds, scenic construction.

Select Shows

CES SEMA IMEX MAGIC EDC Disney Workday Zscaler 7-Eleven UiPath P1Harmony NA Tour

Where This Is Going

250 LED walls. Thousands of hours of repetitive builds. Now I'm building the thing that makes me obsolete.

Currently developing garment manipulation automation for defense logistics. The same hands-on understanding of how materials behave under real conditions — wrinkled fabric, unstructured textiles, imperfect folds — is what makes this approach different from lab-only robotics research.

Pursuing DARPA TTO funding. Building a proof-of-concept pipeline: hand tracking, garment segmentation, trajectory extraction, robotic retargeting.

MediaPipe SAM2 Diffusion Policy Franka Panda DARPA TTO Learning from Demonstration

Contact

Available nationwide.

Email

donovan@donovancadelina.com

Base

Las Vegas, NV — available nationwide

Website

donovancadelina.com