Christopher Woodruff
Operations Lead - GRACE-FO Laser Ranging Interferometer
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Woodruff is an electronics and FPGA engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating spaceborne laser ranging and GPS instruments at JPL, currently serving as Operations Lead for the GRACE-FO Laser Ranging Interferometer. He combines deep DSP and real-time FPGA expertise—implementing phasemeters, Pound-Drever-Hall controllers, and frequency-offset phaselockers—with hands-on systems engineering for mission integration, commissioning, and flight operations. Christopher champions modern development practices for hardware teams, having introduced git-based workflows, CI-driven FPGA builds, automated simulation, and FPGA-in-the-loop testing at JPL. Comfortable in MATLAB and Python and unapologetically a Vi user, he bridges low-level digital logic with higher-level test and verification tools to reduce risk on flight hardware. Based in Pasadena, his work uniquely spans lab development, international spacecraft integration, and live instrument operations, reflecting both technical depth and operational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering at Harvey Mudd College
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
git-mirror7
ios5
build-script4
linux4
windows4
signal-protocol4
svg3
archlinux3
shell3
macos3
version-control3
testing3
diagram3
build-system2
timing-diagram2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cswoodruff/aur-python2-sphinx-autobuild
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
cswoodruff/aur-python2-livereload
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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