David Barfoot
Sr. Principal Systems Engineer at BAE Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Barfoot is a senior principal systems engineer in Austin with nine years of experience focused on real-time signal processing, optical sensing, and high-speed data acquisition. He has led engineering teams through product redesigns, commercialization, and an acquisition, and was an early technical lead who advanced distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to field-proven maturity. Holder of 12 issued patents, five publications and a 2014 Halliburton invention award, he blends deep hands-on firmware and software skills (C/C++, C#, Java, MATLAB) with systems-level productization. His work spans interferometry, Raman and fiber-optic sensing, RF systems, and data visualization for complex linear assets like pipelines and wells. Known for moving technologies from lab demos to field trials, he also brings practical experience in IP management and industrial protocol integration. Colleagues rely on him for turning demanding sensor characterization and high-data-rate processing challenges into reliable, manufacturable systems.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (6)
circular-slider8
swiftui4
swift3
ios2
reference-implementation1
multimarkdown1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
davebarfoot/DRBCircularSlider
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
A Circular Slider written for SwiftUI as a Learning Experience.
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
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davebarfoot/dotfiles
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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