Jacob Gilbert
Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Gilbert is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and RF engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience advancing wireless communications through software-defined radio, now leading non-kinetic effects engineering at Sandia National Laboratories. He blends deep systems and signal-processing expertise from roles at Sandia, DeepSig, and Johns Hopkins APL with practical product and team leadership, having managed applications engineering and R&D efforts. A prolific contributor to GNU Radio, he improves core SDR back-end functionality—fixing PMT issues, enhancing PDU handling, and extending FFT windowing—which underscores his commitment to open-source wireless tooling. Based in Albuquerque, he pairs an MS from Johns Hopkins with a builder’s mentality: designing robust systems, breaking them to learn faster, and sharing those lessons to grow the SDR community.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at New Mexico State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Github Skills (12)
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cprogramming-language10
gnuradio10
python9
dspic9
dspace9
cplus9
cpp9
fm-radio8
sdl8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gnuradio/gnuradio
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 33 commits, 72 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the GNU Radio project by modifying and extending existing functionality. Their work involved fixing bugs related to module renaming and PMT (polymorphic message type) handling, as well as enhancing the capabilities of existing blocks by adding functionality such as new setters for PDU blocks and adding a method for identifying PDUs. Furthermore, the user added features to improve message handling and added support for new window generation in the FFT.
pythonwirelessc-plus-pluscybersecuritycommunications
jacobagilbert/gnuradio
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
GNU Radio
Contributions:5 commits, 199 pushes, 143 branches in 10 months
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