Carl Fischer
Chief Data Architect
Dayton, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Fischer is a Chief Data Architect and technologist with over two decades of hands-on experience bridging advanced sensor physics and operational intelligence systems. He has led sensor characterization and ISR technology strategy for Ball Aerospace and now shapes mission-focused software and data practices at BAE Systems, applying deep expertise in optical sensor modeling, calibration, and high-performance cluster computing. His background spans laboratory quantum‑dot device growth and first-of-its-kind quantum-cascade electroluminescence to large-scale remote sensing programs (VIIRS, CrIS, NPOESS), enabling a rare combination of materials‑level science and systems‑level engineering. Carl is skilled at turning complex calibration and artifact problems into deployable tools for target detection, geolocation, and radiometrically accurate scene simulation, and he routinely translates those capabilities for both technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Beyond aerospace, he contributes to his community through local school-board involvement and brings a practical focus on mentoring and process improvement to teams. A pragmatic innovator, he often pairs analytical techniques (PCA, subspace projection) with optimized compute pipelines to accelerate intelligence outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering (Solid State), PhD Electrical Engineering (Solid State) at University of Michigan
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Innovators-3311/FreightFrenzy_Official
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Innovators 3311's Freight Frenzy source code
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 months
freightrobotics-competitionroboticsfreight-frenzy
Carl4/trinket-derby-esc
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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