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Seattle, Wa, Us

* Assist with software platform, development tooling, productization of offroad autonomous vehicles.

Nashua, New Hampshire, Us

Lead team around building software infrastructure for a start-up robotics company.Improved CI/CD pipelines with gitlab tooling, increased use of docker.Overhauled software deployment strategy from building on device to deploying software in docker images.Documented and designed software architecture for remote and autonomously controlled helicopters.Designed pilot handover communication protocol.Designed Frameworks/Platform architecture for linux software nodes - messaging, system health/status reporting/timing and synchronizationDesigned Fault Detection/Isolation/Recovery software.Improved Project and Program management processes by integrating more Agile development practices.Largely C++ project in both Linux and Embedded spaces.

San Francisco, California, Us

Team lead for the AV Frameworks team. Responsible for the software frameworks and environment of the autonomy software for freight trucks.Acting program manager for AV Applications, the general software stack needed to operate the truck.Led efforts on (among others): System health monitoring and tooling Application startup overhaul Software deployment strategy

San Francisco, California, Us

Software engineer for the AV Frameworks team (also known as SW platform in other organizations). Building C++ and Linux frameworks for autonomous freight trucks. Experience with ROS, Ansible, Linux configuration, Catkin, CMake.Some project and program management experience in shaping our team's work

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Lead development efforts of a small company growing to larger scale enterprise software production. Develop coding standards and best practices within the company, advocate for process improvement.Lead architectural effort of satellite control system. System is a distributed architecture using gRPC (with protobuf) communication between components. Components are written in C++17 (with Qt5), Python 3, and JavaScript (React, Express, Node). System connects to external customer endpoints in Apache Kafka (using Apache Avro encoding) or over REST requests (some using CBOR encoding). System is built into docker containers and deployed into an Azure Cloud environment.Building and mentoring a team that has tripled in size in the past year, with a major focus on improving test-driven development, CI/CD tooling, and good object oriented design.

Software defined radio product; using C++, Qt, Linux toolkits.Engineering Product Lead, Team Lead, Lead GUI developerAssisted with transition to modern Agile development practices, with an emphasis on automated testing, git software control, slack communications.Helped other employees come up to speed with these techniques, C++11/14 tools.Scrum Master for development team (team of 2-4 people).Gnu Radio for simulation of radio data and analysisPython/Anaconda/Jupyter data analysis for SDR developmentMachine Learning DSP Signal analysis

Columbia, Maryland, Us

• Product to stream and enrich high volume data. • Updating legacy software to be more modular, less dependent on external utilities. • C++ and Java code, using Protobuf and ZeroMQ to communicate between components. • Reworked the C++ build system to cmake, o saved an estimated 10-20% of development time over legacy make system.• Implemented new generic factory system based on templates and type traits. • Updated code to C++ 14 standards where possible.• Introduced google mocks to help focus testing on proper unit testing to be run continuously. • Trained Junior developers in C++, code review practices, unit test writing practices (using google test). • Presented several technical talks to group on cmake, google test, and our program's architecture.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, Us

• Migrating legacy software product to c++ server / javascript client design.• Learned some javascript and Google Closure library tools for some client work. • Server designed to be stateless and functional. • Used Google Protobuf as communication platform between server and client. • Test driven development, with a lot of templates/generic programming.

Greenbelt, Md, Us

Contractor through Telophase• Network data server, connecting from hardware readout on cards through to a network pipeline to a reduced data form for scientists to analyze without having to work through the intermediate steps.• Serial communication suite to set various hardware parameters for the experimental setup. • Coordinate customer (engineer/scientist) needs into developed product• Test Driven Development where possible to provide maintainability• CMake, Qt cross compiled to a variety of user platforms• TCP/IP, RS232 and homebrewed protocols for ground-based experimental hardware

Moline, Il, Us

Software programming contracted for John Deere. C++ programming for embedded Linux devices on precision agriculture equipment. Using the Qt framework for business logic and GUI. Agile Development environment. Focus on software infrastructure programming, primarily the installation and upgrades of software to the devices; Test-Driven Development (TDD) environment using the Google Test Mock framework and Cucumber tests; Continuous integration through Mercurial.My personal expertise was developed in Interprocess Communications, particularly DBus and System Semaphores (POSIX and SystemV to a lesser degree); I also took point on implementing significant overhauls to the architecture of the software to more closely match good design practices of MVC and simple exposed interfaces.Job as contractor through Randstad.

Ames, Iowa, Us

C++ development of detector 'firmware' and data analysis software using the ROOT libraries for particle physics; Linux development and analysis environment;Hardware and systems-level testing: Tested Digital-Analog circuit interface to customize chip parameter. Use of oscilloscopes and digital logic testing equipment; Developed and documented testing procedure manual for Strontium -90 Radioisotope source testing of pixel detector; analysis of hot/dead detection chips and channels including using excel pivot tables and color coding to analyze chips. Service work: Overhaul of clustering algorithm for silicon stripixel detector to better handle edge cases and noise scenario. Analysis of data and simulation to determine noise sources and data cuts to eliminate noise or unhelpful data. Improve hit locations for better track fitting via road-finding and Kalman filter algorithms. Data taking shifts including data buffer operation, troubleshooting voltage controls and detector failures.Research work: analyze capability of silicon vertex detector to distinguish and identify particle jets over a broader coverage area than the experiment as a whole. Develop cuts that would preferentially select particle jets from heavy-flavoured quarks. Compare various jet-finding algorithms within the silicon detector framework.

Ames, Iowa, Us

Taught recitations and labs for calculus-based first year physics (predominantly for engineers). Prepared weekly or semiweekly recitation classes, exam review sessions, graded homework, discussed complex problem solving skills. Assisted with laboratory setup and difficulties.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Phd - Abd; Master Of Science, Physics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics