Austin Peterson
Electonics Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Peterson is an electronics engineer with 11 years of experience designing, testing, and automating avionics and aerospace systems, currently working at Lockheed Martin's Space Systems division. He has a strong track record of turning manual processes into automated tools—from MATLAB/XML and VBA scripts that cut weeks of work to Java test automation for continuous integration—and has driven test-bench and breakout-box hardware for aircraft systems. His background spans reliability analyses, FMEAs, fault trees, and hands-on prototype validation such as pyrometer amplifier testing and an exoskeleton interface he led electrically. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved cross-platform parsing and Electron demos for the widely used SheetJS spreadsheet toolkit, reflecting a blend of embedded hardware expertise and full-stack software chops. Based in Denver and trained at Purdue, he thrives in fast-paced, multidisciplinary teams building mission-critical systems and enjoys projects that stretch into new technical domains.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
English
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Github Skills (16)
spreadsheet10
xlsx10
javascript10
data-parsing10
excel10
ods10
electron9
nodejs9
html8
heroku6
css6
css-position6
web-deployment6
react-hooks6
react6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
SheetJS/sheetjs
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
📗 SheetJS Spreadsheet Data Toolkit -- New home https://git.sheetjs.com/SheetJS/sheetjs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on enhancing the SheetJS spreadsheet toolkit's compatibility and functionality across various platforms. They updated the Electron demo and made adjustments for compatibility in newer Electron versions. The user also updated the demo, including adding support for file uploading, and improved parsing logic for ODS files, fixing data and date parsing issues. These contributions reflect a focus on improving cross-platform usability and data handling within the project.
xlsxcsvdatajstreeno-code
theskillwithin/Staffing-Dog
May 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1062 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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