Dennis Macua
Aerospace Engineer II at Space Sciences Laboratory
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Macua is an aerospace and instrumentation engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-voltage, high-frequency detector systems for space and accelerator facilities. Based in Los Angeles and a UC Berkeley mechanical engineering graduate, he has designed, manufactured, and tested flight-ready detectors and PCBs for missions and labs including NASA UVEX, GLIDE, LCLS-II, BESSY II, MAX IV, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He blends mechanical design (SolidWorks, CNC, 3D printing) with electronics and firmware work—designing HV boards, GUIs in C++/C#, and Timepix-based detector housings—plus expertise in UHV cleaning and vibration testing for space qualification. Notably, his undergraduate device (BETFOS) achieved measurement parity within 4.9% of legacy instruments and led to presentations at Stanford and collaborations at SLAC and Helmholtz-Zentrum. Outside the lab he’s a space-science enthusiast who unwinds with ping pong and community mentoring, bringing both technical depth and practical mission-focus to instrumentation projects.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Spanish, English, Korean
Github Skills (33)
r-package9
weighting9
r-stats8
alpha8
bootstrap7
survey7
iterative7
science7
sna6
python6
data-analysis5
social-network-analysis5
tidy5
tidyverse5
pandas5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dfeehan/dfeehan.github.io
Jan 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:420 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 3 months
dfeehan/rwtheme
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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