Ashton Johnson
Senior Principal Solution Architect at Leidos
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolAshton Johnson is a Principal Electrical Engineer and Solution Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, integrating, and fielding embedded avionics and flight-test systems. He blends deep expertise in microcontrollers, SoCs, FPGAs (VHDL), and PCBA design with proven program leadership—having managed teams of 25+ and served as product owner and scrum master on complex projects. His work spans full product lifecycles from concept and hardware-in-the-loop simulation to launch operations and flight termination systems, including travel as a launch console operator with a track record of mission success. An open-source advocate, he contributes reusable KiCad templates for Arduino and Raspberry Pi hardware, reflecting a practical focus on accurate, production-ready hardware design assets. Based in Huntsville, Ashton pairs systems-level thinking with fast troubleshooting and a knack for turning high-risk aerospace requirements into robust, testable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama in HuntsvilleBachelor of Wireless Engineering Wireless Hardware, Bachelor of Wireless Engineering Wireless Hardware at Auburn University
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Github Skills (4)
kicad10
hardware-designs10
raspberry-pi9
arduino9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KiCad/kicad-library
Dec 2015 - Sep 2017
The schematic and 3D libraries for KiCad 4.0. Note that the footprint libraries are the *.pretty repos themselves. This is an orphaned repo, the news about the v5 libs, http://kicad.org/post/kicad-official-libraries/.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 17 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ashton primarily worked on creating and modifying KiCad templates for various hardware projects. The commits included adding new templates for Arduino and Raspberry Pi GPIO boards, as well as an enclosure template. The user also updated existing templates with the correct pinouts, specifications, and mechanical details, suggesting an emphasis on creating accurate and reusable hardware design assets.
3dkicad
ashtonchase/rookCore
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 pushes in 5 years
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