Andrew Shacker
Mechanical Engineer at Flight Dogs
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Shacker is a Mechanical Engineer with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience spanning mechanical design, manufacturing, process optimization, and flight instruction, currently working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and instructing at Flight Dogs. He brings hands-on program management experience from Apple and engineering roles at Western Digital, Planet, and NASA, blending precision hardware testing and automation with software skills in Java, Python, MATLAB, and LabVIEW. A licensed Professional Engineer, Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer, Six Sigma Green Belt and both a private and remote pilot, he uniquely marries aerospace operational knowledge with production-scale tooling and controls expertise. Notably, his background includes integrating software for orbital-debris research and developing advanced process control frameworks for facility systems—skills that bridge experimental research and manufacturable, fault-tolerant systems. Outside work he’s a Cat 3 road racer, reflecting a taste for high-performance, risk-managed environments.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyPiedmont Hills High SchoolGithub contributions (5)
astroshacker/ATC-Pattern-Analysis-with-Spark
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
astroshacker/kml2g1000
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Convert FlightAware KML tracklogs to G1000 CSV for importing to ForeFlight
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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