Barry Fowler
United States
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Top SchoolBarry Fowler is a systems engineer and software practitioner with 12 years of experience specializing in GPS-aided navigation, modeling & simulation, and modern control systems. He brings hands-on experience with safety-critical software development under DO-178 and practical quality systems expertise across ISO-9001/AS9100, FMEA, SPC, and Lean Six Sigma tools. Equally comfortable in technical and programmatic roles, he has led project planning, scheduling, and stakeholder-driven efforts to meet cost, schedule, and performance goals and completed PMI coursework across the nine knowledge areas. His background includes MBSE familiarity and contributions to flight-critical GPS research published with Honeywell/USAF and ION GPS forums dating back to the 1990s. On the software side, he has contributed to a well-known open-source graphics library (OpenSubdiv), improving crease-weighting and topology refinement logic—an example of his attention to numerical detail and robust validation. Colleagues would describe him as methodical, quality-focused, and adept at translating complex electromechanical failure modes into actionable corrective plans.
12 years of coding experience
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PixarAnimationStudios/OpenSubdiv
Sep 2014 - Sep 2022
An Open-Source subdivision surface library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:414 commits, 318 PRs, 123 pushes in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Barry focused on modifying the weighting of sharpness values for the Chaikin crease method within the opensubdiv/sdc library. They implemented changes to prevent the semi-sharp edges from decreasing by averaging with inf-sharp values and adjusted the averaging to include only semi-sharp edges around a vertex. The user also addressed issues with refined topology not correctly oriented around vertices by updating refinement methods to order correctly and updating the Level topology validation method.
subdivision-surfacesurfacesubdivision
barfowl/OpenSubdiv
May 2015 - Nov 2025
An Open-Source subdivision surface library.
Contributions:448 pushes, 645 branches, 3 tags in 10 years 8 months
subdivision-surfacesurfacesubdivision
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