David Knight
Orbital Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Knight is an orbital software engineer with nine years of experience and a five-year focus on embedded systems for space and aerospace applications. Currently writing Rust flight software for satellite payloads at Anduril, he previously led pointing, control, and image-processing efforts at Northrop Grumman, where he also built cross-platform SOC toolchains and an orbital mechanics/time-scale library in C++, Python, and MATLAB. He combines hands-on flight software development across VxWorks, Linux, FreeRTOS, and FPGA toolchains with systems engineering—serving as a SME on mission data processing and winning recognition for planning FSW/FPGA development on large proposals. Comfortable bridging algorithms, hardware, and test automation, he has guided student teams and hobby rocketry groups to production-quality avionics and HIL rigs. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often turns MATLAB and data-driven prototypes into portable, maintainable flight code and development workflows.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
San Diego City CollegeHigh school Diploma General Education, High school Diploma General Education at Mission Bay High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at San Diego State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at California State University, Fullerton
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
pedal9
guitar7
music5
midi5
bass4
rocket3
helix3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SDSURocketProject/far-mars-onboard-firmware
Dec 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:133 commits, 59 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
DavidWKnight/The-White-Box
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:128 commits, 5 PRs, 52 pushes in 8 months
pedalbassdigital-effects-pedalmidiguitar
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