Brett D. Email & Phone Number

Hawthorne, California, Us

Hawthorne, California, Us

Starship Software Infrastructure• Improved modeling software to streamline engineers' workflows and improve productivity.• Investigated performance issues with Hardware-Out-Of-The-Loop tests and worked with engineers to make fixes.• Developed a linter tool to help avoid runtime errors as a result of improper model setup.• Analyzed algorithm performance and introduced targeted optimizations.• Debugged physics models and implemented changes to improve the correctness of simulations.

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Spent hundreds of hours working to complete carbon fiber and fiberglass composite layups for the shell of the car.• Traveled to Australia for two months to work on the car and race in the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Responsible for running the weekly officer meeting, biweekly team meeting, and for attending each sub-team meeting.• Coordinate over 50 engineering students spread between five sub-teams to make sure that work is completed on time.• Oversee the completion of the team's fourteenth car and design of the fifteenth, making sure that requirements are met.• Perform operational tasks as needed, including meeting with university faculty and organizing in-person work sessions.

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Collaborate with team members to architect system level behavior and prioritize development and testing tasks.• Implemented basic hardware-in-the-loop testing to test a boards behavior on CAN by simulating data from other boards.• Designed a PCB using Altium Designer to interface with sensors and log data to an SD card.• Fixed bugs and implemented new functionality for multiple boards in the car and validated changes.• Implemented a physics simulation to calculate energy usage, allowing for the analysis of different race strategies. • Wrote an algorithm to optimize driving speed for each stage of the race, leading to energy savings of up to 12.3%.• Initiated a project to acquire weather and power to drive data in order to improve the accuracy of our predictive models.• Created visualizations for telemetry data to give better warnings and include information on real-time solar array power.

Austin, Texas, Us

Low Voltage System Validation Engineering• Debug, maintain, and write automated tests and supporting code in order to improve test coverage and reliability.• Review automated test results to make sure there are no regressions with vehicle behavior.• Work with developers and integration engineers to reproduce bugs, validate bug fixes, and test new features.• Brought up automated testing for multiple new vehicle platforms which was then used to run dozens of nightly tests.• Wrote firmware for a new tester that allowed for the use of fewer boards, reducing the number of points of failure.• Developed software to detect hardware failures in the test setup allowing for quicker fixes and greater uptime.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Advanced Visualization Infrastructure Team

CSci 1933 - Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

At Vital, I was on the Solutions Engineering team and I was tasked with developing a user interface to help with managing notification rules for servers. To complete the goals of the project, I researched related open source projects, selected the frameworks and libraries to be used, and worked with team members during the development of the software. Once the core parts of the backend were up and running, using Docker to run a combination of open-source containers as wells ones I wrote, I was able to build the user interface. Initially, the prototype of the user interface was focused only on being functional and did not use any frameworks. Once the prototype user interface was complete, I worked with another member of the team to develop a React-based user interface.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Engineering

Minor, Astrophysics

High School Diploma