Andrea Baretta Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

I am part of Project Rapid, the club's flagship engineering project. We are building a 3U CubeSat as a testbed for an experimental ion thruster built by the UCLA Plasma and Space Propulsion Laboratory. I am currently in charge of the satellite's attitude control system. I am developing a detailed physics simulation of the dynamics of our spacecraft in Matlab, and I am using this simulation to test, tune, and refine control algorithms. I am also responsible designing in Altium the satellite's backup battery protection system.We project our satellite will launch by the end of 2025.

Torrance, California, United States

At Moog, I helped developed a next generation 4-axis helicopter autopilot system. I developed software tools to perform unit and integration testing between flight software and digital models. I wrote a C-code parser to gather data on legacy code for generation of unit tests, and I integrated my new tooling with the existing unit testing framework in Matlab. Armed with the upgraded unit tests, I used their results to debug the team's Simulink models of the flight software. I also had the opportunity to learn and explore time series analysis and signal processing. In this capacity, I wrote custom spectral analysis software to measure aircraft frequency response.

Los Angeles, California, United States

At Rocket Project, I spent two quarters leading a team of mechanical engineers in designing the internal load bearing structures of Prometheus, a hybrid propulsion rocket. I made use of SolidWorks to design aluminum bulkheads, Ansys to perform finite element analysis and refine my designs, and HSMWorks to generate G-code for Haas Mini Mills. I also learned how to operate the machines themselves, and I machined my own designs.With the Prometheus team, I competed in the Spaceport America Cup, and we launched our rocket at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry range in the Mojave.

San Francisco Bay Area

I was a programmer at FTC 8404 Quixilver Robotics until 2021, and I took charge as software lead in my senior year of high school. On this team, I developed novel position estimation algorithms from odometry, computer vision, and ultrasonic distance sensors. I also spearheaded the team's efforts on developing a motion control with feedforward and feedback control. The technologies I used for these projects include Java on Android, Python, and OpenCV.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

As an intern at TickUp's Systematic Trading Team, I was responsible for writing in C++ a microbenchmark to measure CPU interprocess communication latency, with a precision of single digit nanoseconds, and throughput. I then used the knowledge I gained in researching and building the microbenchmark to develop several ultra fast FIFO algorithms for interprocess communication, each to meet a different need of the Systematic Trading team. In high frequency trading, speed is everything, so I had to fight tooth and nail to shave nanoseconds off message passing latencies. My fastest FIFOs achieved first word latencies on the order of 40 nanoseconds.

Mathematics Of Computation B.S., Computational Mathematics, Sophomore

Activities and Societies: Bruin Spacecraft Group, Rocket Project at UCLAI am a second year Mathematics of Computation student at UCLA..

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: FTC 8404 Quixilver Robotics, Varsity Boys' Tennis, Boy Scouts of AmericaThe FTC 8404 Quixilver team is.