Benjamin Straw
Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Straw is a software engineer with a decade of experience applying embedded systems, simulation, and flight software expertise to human spaceflight programs. At Lockheed Martin he has progressed from intern to rapid-response engineer on NASA's Orion program, delivering simulation and flight software and diagnosing system-level blockers across mission-critical code. His background in CubeSat avionics and SD card/GPS driver development demonstrates hands-on low-level firmware skills that complement his higher-level systems integration work. Based in Chicago, he combines a UCF computer engineering foundation with practical experience shipping software for crewed spacecraft and lunar lander efforts. Notably, he moves fluidly between quick-turn software fixes and long-term simulation development, making him effective in both urgent operational contexts and planned flight software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (20)
game-development8
game-engine7
open-source6
godot4
discord-bot4
disk3
discord-py3
stm3
benchmark3
stream3
discord3
benchmarking3
linux2
windows2
react2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UCF-CMR/CubeSat-WTC
Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
QPace/SurfSat STM-WTC Code
Contributions:22 PRs, 81 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 4 months
stm
SEDS-UCF/IREC2018-TECS
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
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