Drue Satterfield
Principal Software Engineer at Targetarm
Danbury, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrue Satterfield is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building embedded, avionics, cloud, and desktop systems across defense and commercial environments. He has led cross-functional teams and reorganized workflows to deliver complex cybersecurity exploit scenarios, cloud products on OpenStack, and flight-worthy bare-metal software for radar and aircraft platforms. Drue combines low-level firmware expertise on TI Keystone and DSP processors with higher-level GUI and tooling work (WPF, Qt, Windows Forms) and Git-based team infrastructure. He has a track record of translating legacy assembly into modern C++ and designing control algorithms and motor/PWM systems for robotics, including PCB and electrical system design. Known for bridging research-level requirements through to customer delivery, he currently drives architecture and delivery as a principal engineer while mentoring engineering teams. Based in Danbury, CT, he holds a dual background in electrical and computer engineering from Missouri S&T and brings a practical, systems-first approach to safety- and mission-critical software.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelors, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Spanish
Github Skills (38)
wake-on-lan10
remote-control9
robot9
embedded8
telemetry8
robotics8
monitoring7
ros7
eagle7
arm6
iot6
energia5
hardware5
rover4
api4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MissouriMRDT/ArmBoard_Hardware
Oct 2016 - May 2018
Hardware design files for robotic arm
Contributions:9 releases, 6 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 6 months
roboticsrobotic-armhardwarearmhardware-design
MissouriMRDT/ArmBoard_Software
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
Software Control for Robotic Arm
Contributions:2 releases, 281 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
roboticsrobotic-armrobotrosarm
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