Andy Cate
Controls Engineer at Thea Energy
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Cate is a controls engineer based in Berkeley with nine years of hands-on experience building avionics, RF, and control systems for rockets, satellites, and fusion projects. With a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley, he has led and advised student teams designing liquid rocket avionics while contributing to industry programs at Relativity, Astranis, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Currently at Thea Energy, he bridges hardware and software—designing robust sensors and control algorithms that survive harsh flight environments. Andy’s background combines academic rigor and practical prototyping, and he has a flair for rapid experimental instrumentation from his time developing optical imaging and test equipment. Unusually for his career stage, he’s worked across both aerospace flight hardware and fusion RF, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on high-reliability control systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley High SchoolConcurrent Enrollment for Mathematics, Concurrent Enrollment for Mathematics at Berkeley City College
Github Skills (30)
teensy10
sensor10
encode9
logic8
arduino8
rockets8
station7
controlling6
pocketmine5
react5
dashboard4
electrical-engineering4
baduk4
wpilib4
electron3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Space-Enterprise-at-Berkeley/ground
Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 184 pushes in 3 years 4 months
team5499/forest
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
New dashboard for Monkeys
Contributions:21 releases, 58 PRs, 110 pushes in 2 months
dashboard
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