Cel Skeggs
Lead Flight Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolCel Skeggs is a lead flight software engineer with 11 years' experience building robust onboard and ground systems for flagship NASA missions, currently shaping software infrastructure for the Mars Sample Retrieval Lander at JPL. With prior contributions to Perseverance, Curiosity, and Europa Clipper, they specialize in embedded flight software where correctness and testability are paramount. A recent MEng from MIT, Cel combines rigorous academic training with hands-on system-level engineering and open-source work on the widely used F´ flight software framework. They prioritize careful, cross-disciplinary communication and engineering practices that multiply team effectiveness, and they selectively pursue roles aligned with clear, ethical mission contexts. An adventurous engineer based in Pasadena, Cel is open to opportunities in the Pacific Northwest, Canada, or Aotearoa New Zealand.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCatlin Gabel School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
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c-language10
realtime10
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oft10
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web-framework10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
mutex9
build-system8
nasm6
system-calls6
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/fprime
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 11 PRs, 16 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Cel primarily focused on improving the F´ flight software framework by addressing specific build issues and enhancing the reliability of the system. Their contributions included fixing build configurations related to object names and musl compilation. They also worked on improving assertions, including context for debugging, and implemented a new ready port for coordinating startup. Furthermore, the user addressed potential memory leaks and improved error checking within the mutex stub.
flightfprimeraspberry-picppreal-time
celskeggs/RVirt
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
RISC-V hypervisor written in Rust
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
risc-vriscvrusthypervisorrisc
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