David Flay
Senior Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Flay is a senior professional staff physicist and engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering precision measurement systems for radiation and magnetic-field experiments. He combines deep theoretical understanding of charged-particle radiation and NMR techniques with hands-on expertise in DAQ software (C/C++/Python), FPGA firmware (VHDL), low-noise analog and RF electronics, PCB/CAD design, and large-scale data analysis. At institutions including Jefferson Lab, UMass Amherst (Muon g-2), and Johns Hopkins APL he has led complex operations teams, coordinated day-to-day runs of multi-institution experiments, and produced sub-part-per-billion measurement precision. Comfortable across hardware and software boundaries, he excels at stabilizing power and control systems and integrating FPGAs with Linux-based DAQ stacks. Based in Laurel, MD, he’s known for independently solving hard experimental problems while thriving in large collaborative projects.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics at Temple UniversityBachelor's Degree, Physics, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Mathematics at Manhattan College
Github Skills (4)
simulation9
code-analysis6
signal4
nodejs2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dflay/util_df
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:100 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
dflay/NMR-DAQ
Nov 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:251 commits, 240 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 1 month
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