Derek Wright
Embedded Software Engineer at Amazon
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Wright is an embedded software engineer with nine years of experience building flight and space-related systems from university research to industry leaders. Currently on Amazon’s Flight Computer System Team in Boulder, he previously developed bus flight software for civil space programs at Ball Aerospace and worked on flight software and sensor design for research labs and startups. His background in electrical engineering with a computer science minor gives him a hardware-aware approach to firmware and systems integration, and he has hands-on experience across launch operations, instrumentation, and swarm robotics research. Colleagues would note his blend of academic rigor and pragmatic field experience—he moves comfortably between low-level embedded code and system-level avionics requirements.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
derekwright29/RTOS
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
derekwright29/ECEN2350_Project2
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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