Dylan Thomas
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at The Aerospace Corporation
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Thomas is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at The Aerospace Corporation with a decade of experience building modeling and simulation software for challenging RPO and SDA problems. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech and has deep expertise in satellite trajectory optimization, SLAM for CubeSat proximity operations, and fuel-optimal guidance implemented with tools like YALMIP, Gurobi, and Matlab. Dylan combines hands-on embedded systems testing and PyQt/ArcGIS integration with systems-level thinking from work on UAV cyber-physical resilience and DO-178C-oriented avionics projects. Based in Ashburn, VA, he bridges aerospace research and production engineering, delivering practical simulation frameworks that have been validated in real-time and field deployment contexts. An affinity for both rigorous optimization and pragmatic software tooling makes him effective at turning complex analytic methods into deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech
English, Spanish
Github Skills (35)
scipy9
dronekit-python9
algorithms9
python9
beautify9
controlled9
sqlalchemy9
scientific-computing9
spotify8
css7
sql7
database6
proximity6
cli5
adaptor5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dylan-thomas832/matlabFilters
Dec 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Space-at-VT/CubeSatRPO
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 4 months
optimalcubesatproximity
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