Erich Hoover
Scientific Research Analysis Director at Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield Company
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErich Hoover is a physics-trained engineering leader with 20 years of experience applying electronics, optics, and software to precision measurement systems, currently directing scientific research and Data-as-a-Service efforts at Orion Space Solutions. He has led electro-optical calibration and optics teams that dramatically sped iteration cycles—cutting a calibration run to ~37% of its original time—and invented novel algorithms for calibration fit order and bad-pixel detection. Comfortable bridging hardware, firmware, and software, he has architected Debian-based flight platforms and CI/CD pipelines that reduced development friction across teams. His background includes inventing high-speed wavelength measurement techniques and interferometric phase methods in industry R&D, and hands-on contributions to open-source projects improving WSL compatibility in Wine. Based in Lafayette, Colorado, he pairs deep academic training (PhD in Engineering Physics) with practical systems delivery for space and photonics applications.
20 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Colorado School of Mines
English
Github Skills (10)
c1710
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
filesystem10
c1110
fileio10
kernel-mode9
kernel9
device-driver9
driver9
ntfs8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wine-mirror/wine
Aug 2014 - Sep 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 commits in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Erich primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) support within the Wine project. Their commits involve fixing issues related to time conversions, asynchronous volume information queries, and the handling of file attributes. The user also made several changes to the mountmgr.sys driver, adding support for volume information queries and refining the query_unix_drive functionality. These changes improved the overall compatibility and functionality of Wine when interacting with the Windows kernel.
compholio/jabbrv
Jan 2014 - Sep 2022
Automatic Journal Title Abbreviation Package for LaTeX
Contributions:26 commits, 8 PRs, 27 pushes in 8 years 9 months
journalabbreviationlatex
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