Hunter Ducharme
Wildland Firefighter at USDA Forest Service
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolHunter Ducharme is a software-savvy aerospace and mathematics graduate who pairs 11 years of hands-on technical experience with rugged field leadership as a Wildland Firefighter in Santa Barbara. He has built physics-accurate tools and flight-ground systems—developing GNC, simulation, and orbital geometry code in C++ and Python for projects ranging from lunar lander models to ISS rendezvous verification. As a freelance developer he shipped a Flask API that uses JPL ephemerides and spherical geometry for precise astronomy calculations, and has full-stack experience deploying Django apps and performance-tuning production servers. Experienced operating in high-stress, safety-critical environments, he also served as primary EMT and radio-programming lead on fire crews, bringing discipline and clear communication to technical teams. Comfortable bridging research-grade simulation and pragmatic web services, he combines computational rigor with a talent for simplifying complex problems into reliable, maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Associate of Science (A.S.) at Lone Star College-CyFairBachelor of Science (B.S.) Double major: Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Double major: Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (63)
gitbook10
javascript10
css10
ruby10
html10
nodejs10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails10
routers9
ddclient9
markdown9
pendulum9
dyndns8
database8
mozilla8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hgducharme/meatball
May 2023 - Jun 2024
A C++17 chess engine written entirely from scratch (WIP)
Contributions:28 PRs, 353 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year
chess-engine
hgducharme/inverted-pendulum
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
Another inverted pendulum project
Contributions:136 commits, 3 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 years
penduluminverted-pendulumcontrol-systemslqrprinter
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