Brett Gottula
Principal Communication Systems Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Gottula is a Principal Communication Systems Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and optimizing DSP algorithms for mission-critical space communications across CPU, FPGA, and ASIC targets. He has driven modem, radar, and TTC systems from concept through flight on programs including Falcon 9, Dragon 1/2, Starlink, and a geostationary Astranis satellite, often owning requirements, architecture, verification, and vendor coordination. Notable highlights include developing a DSN-compatible deep space transponder prototype, leading a CCSDS Prox1 relay implementation, and delivering high-throughput FPGA modem blocks that flew on multiple missions. Brett combines rigorous bit-accurate simulation and fixed-point expertise with pragmatic prototype development (GNU Radio and Verilog) to shrink schedules and de-risk flight hardware. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he excels at translating tight mission constraints into deployable signal-processing solutions and tooling that accelerate testing and integration.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (46)
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gnu10
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python9
communications9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
seeing-things/zwo
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
ZWO SDK and custom software for debugging and using it.
Contributions:6 reviews, 91 commits, 44 PRs in 4 years 6 months
debuggingzwodebuggersdk
bgottula/fixed
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:57 commits, 2 comments, 2 issues in 1 month
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