Carl Witthoft
President And CTO at The Witthoft Group, Consultants
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Witthoft is a veteran systems and software engineer with 12+ years of focused experience and a multi-decade track record designing and delivering advanced optical, imaging, and sensor systems. As President and CTO of The Witthoft Group and a current Systems and Requirements Engineer at Veoneer, he blends hands-on coding (Python, R, MATLAB, Ruby, Perl) with deep hardware expertise in quantum and ray optics, fiber optics, and analog/digital electronics. He has led end-to-end development from requirements and ICDs to simulation, test, and flight verification for hyperspectral and multispectral imaging systems, and authored simulation and image-processing software tied to MODTRAN radiometric modeling. Known for clear technical writing and oral communication, he also excels at risk identification and driving practical solutions through Lean/6Sigma methods. Beyond optics, Carl brings practical CAD/mechanical design familiarity and a habit of rapidly mastering new tools and languages to solve cross-disciplinary problems. Based in Acton, MA, he combines research-grade rigor from an MS in Physics with product-focused delivery across defense and commercial programs.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Physics, MS, Physics at Brown UniversityAB, Physics, Mathematics, AB, Physics, Mathematics at Colby College
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Github Skills (53)
r10
gcode10
qml10
string-concatenation9
file-extension9
dataframe9
python9
slicer9
plot9
loops9
pdf9
3d-printer9
3d-printing9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cellocgw/cgwtools_rev2
Dec 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 11 months
cran/ktsolve
Aug 2013 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 commits in 6 years 9 months
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