Cade Walton
Avionics Test Engineer at SpaceX
Newport Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolCade Walton is an avionics-focused electrical engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and automating flight and ground support systems, currently serving as an Avionics Test Engineer at SpaceX. He blends embedded software expertise—writing kernel-level drivers and automation scripts at Qualcomm—with hardware skills in schematic/PCB design, harnessing, and mechanical assemblies from multiple SpaceX internships and university projects. Cade has led student avionics teams and managed cross-disciplinary builds for rockets and CubeSats, demonstrating both technical depth and people leadership. He’s comfortable debugging at the kernel and hardware level, automating complex test campaigns in Python, and turning legacy systems into reliable production test equipment. Based in Newport Beach, he pairs academic rigor (3.79 EE degree from SDSU) with practical vendor coordination and manufacturing experience that speeds prototypes to flight-ready hardware.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.79, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.79 at San Diego State University
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Github Skills (10)
docker4
vscode4
visual-studio-code3
ssh3
vscode-extension3
docker-container3
visual-studio3
remote-development2
devcontainer2
rocket1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
waltoncade/SeniorDesignExample
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
SDSURocketProject/Test-Stand-DAQ
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
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