David Goncalves
Principal Electrical Engineer at SAIC
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Goncalves is a Principal Electrical Engineer based in San Diego with 16 years of multidisciplinary experience spanning electrical, firmware, and software development across R&D, prototyping, and production. He combines deep hands-on expertise in low-EMI RF systems, software-defined radio, and embedded firmware with program-level skills in proposal capture, project management, and team building. David has led hardware/software architecture for distributed control systems, developed wearable and space-grade thermal controllers, and delivered autonomy and retrofit kits for heavy vehicles, demonstrating a knack for turning novel concepts into fielded systems. He frequently blends simulation (Python, MATLAB/Simulink) with practical test automation and failure analysis to accelerate risk retirement and product readiness. Notably, he pairs conventional electrical design with software tooling—automated test suites and SDR-based simulation—to streamline pre-deployment diagnostics and corrective action execution.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University
Github Skills (23)
programming-language10
python10
sublime-text9
sublimelinter9
verilog9
gps9
beagle9
operating-system9
fpga8
bootstrap8
software-defined-radio7
uvm7
vhdl7
wireless7
verification7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ringof/rx888-firmware
May 2024 - Jun 2026
ExtIO_sddc.dll - BreadBoard RF103 / HDSDR
Contributions:9 PRs, 208 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 1 month
ringof/SublimeLinter-contrib-ghdl
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
This linter plugin for SublimeLinter provides an interface to 'ghdl' for VHDL linting.
Contributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 3 months
ghdllinterlintingsublimelintervhdl
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