Background

I am a Flight Software Engineer at Planet Labs working on payload firmware and software for satellites. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Northern Arizona University in 2023 and did a some post-graduate coursework in Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder from 2024-2025.

Some projects…

• signalmesh : Digital synthesizer comprised of a few PCBs
• openGPMP : mathematics library I made during undergrad
• gowin_cortex_m1_fw : example firmware for the Gowin supplied ARM Cortex M1 soft core IP. Mostly targeting the 60K and 138K Tang FPGAs using:
  • mega_60k_test : APB, AHB, DDR3, ETH, ARM Cortex M1
  • mega_138k_test : APB, AHB, DDR3, SFP+, ETH, ARM Cortex M1
• multiflex : N-pin (max 32 pins) protocol inspired by the FPC connectors present on Tang Mega 60k and 138k FPGA dev boards

lots more…

What I like

• low voltage electronics
• embedded & distributed systems
• ARM MCUs. STM32H7x series hard cores are my favorite, also a fan of the Cortex M1 soft core
• cheap FPGAs, mostly from Gowin
• wireless sensing networks in a climate analysis context
• all things open source
• computational mathematics

What I dislike

• Java
• Javascript
• Web development
• Gross abstraction
• Lack of documentation