Carter Frost
GNC Robotics Engineer at Stealth Space Startup
Felton, California, United States
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Top SchoolCarter Frost is a GNC robotics engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building, piloting, and simulating autonomous UAVs and robotic systems across national lab and startup environments. He has deep practical expertise in ROS (Python/C++), hardware design and fabrication, real-time GUIs, and end-to-end testing and validation developed at Sandia National Laboratories and university research projects. Currently contributing to a stealth space startup, Carter blends field-tested autonomy work—mapping gas emissions and coordinating collaborative transport—with software engineering rigor and Git-based workflows. He also teaches and mentors as a supplemental instructor and scoutmaster, translating technical concepts into practical learning for students and teams. Based in Felton, CA, Carter pairs a lifelong curiosity about technology with cross-domain experience from hardware security and PKI internships to network and lab administration, making him comfortable across firmware, embedded systems, and higher-level autonomy stacks.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School High School Diploma, High School High School Diploma at Monterey Coast PrepComputer & General Elementary Education, Computer & General Elementary Education at San Lorenzo Valley ElementaryComputer Networking & System Admin and Computer Science AS Computer Information Systems and Computer Science, Computer Networking & System Admin and Computer Science AS Computer Information Systems and Computer Science at Cabrillo CollegeJunior High and High School, Junior High and High School at Empire AcademyBachelor Science BSCS Computer Science with Minor in American Sign Language, Bachelor Science BSCS Computer Science with Minor in American Sign Language at The University of New Mexico
American Sign Language, English
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Github Skills (45)
stack-based10
esoteric-language10
prolog10
mojo10
mate9
interpreter9
compiler8
ros8
programming-language8
gazebosim7
robotics7
ignition7
robot7
language-design7
gazebo-simulator7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BCLab-UNM/SwarmieOS
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
Python Base Code for the Swarmie Robot
Contributions:2 PRs, 62 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 4 months
pythonbase-coderobot
Carter90/CS11
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:65 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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