Brian Cruz
Electrical Engineer at Starfish Space
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Cruz is an electrical engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of hands-on experience in embedded systems, FPGA design, and robotics, currently contributing to Starfish Space after a stint designing avionics and power systems for the Mars Helicopter at JPL. He combines practical PCB schematic/layout work and parts selection with high-speed FPGA development and control software in C/C++ and VHDL, and has led systems that sample at 500MS/s for magnetic spectroscopy experiments. Comfortable across the stack from KiCAD board design to ROS-based robot controllers, he has a track record of rapid prototyping recognized by a Voyager award and deep experience managing connector pinouts and power trees for flight hardware. He brings an experimental mindset rooted in Caltech training and a history of turning academic designs into fielded and space-qualified hardware.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Github Skills (27)
earth8
opengl7
minecraft7
gnome-shell7
python7
deck-gl6
golang6
go6
gnome6
kitty6
kaios6
sd-card6
led-controller5
terminfo5
large-scale5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cruzsbrian/smartwatch
Sep 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
cruzsbrian/wonky-kong
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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