Andrei Tumbar
Robotics Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrei Tumbar is a Robotics Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with 10 years of experience building simulation, visualization, and ground systems for lunar and Mars robotics. He holds a 3.96 GPA in Computer Engineering from RIT and progressed from intern to full-time engineer by delivering LLVM-based debugging tools, simulation platforms for Perseverance and COLDArm, and an end-to-end ground system for CADRE rovers. Proficient across C, C++, Rust, Python, Go, Scala, and embedded x86/ARM targets, he blends low-level systems work with higher-level tooling and web-capable stacks. Andrei’s work uniquely emphasizes reproducible simulation-driven testing and 3D visualization to accelerate mission planning and rover autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.96/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.96/4.0 at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (80)
dashboard10
lexical-analyzer10
grafana10
embedded10
elasticsearch10
cpp10
influxdb10
monitoring10
object-oriented-programming10
data-visualization10
mysql10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
f-prime10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fprime-community/fpp-tools
Aug 2023 - Feb 2026
LSP, Diagrams & Formatting for FPP
Contributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 24 PRs in 2 years 6 months
AutoGentoo/neoast
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
A modern LALR(1) compiler-compiler for C
Contributions:7 releases, 72 commits, 116 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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