J Hughes
Book Author at O'Reilly Media
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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SeniorJ Hughes is an embedded systems engineer and author with over 30 years of experience designing safety-critical avionics, real-time control, and scientific instrumentation software across Unix, Linux, VxWorks and other RTOSes. He has delivered high-profile space and astronomy systems—including surface imaging for the Phoenix Mars Lander and interferometer calibration work for the James Webb Space Telescope—and has built complex real-time and distributed systems for aerospace, medical imaging, and large-scale astronomical instrumentation. Comfortable in C/C++ and Python, he blends deep low-level systems expertise with practical product engineering, from battery management and digital engine control to gigapixel imaging and adaptive optics. A published technical author who also writes fiction, he pairs hands-on hardware tinkering and microcontroller projects with cabinetry and furniture design, reflecting a maker’s sensibility alongside decades of institutional research and industry engineering.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
7reputation
699reached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (8)
windows6
xml6
javascript6
jquery6
xml-parsing6
cpp5
notepad4
editor4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ArdNut/Arduino-A-Technical-Reference
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
ArdNut/Thermostat
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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