Joel Fuster
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Collins Aerospace
Panama City, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Fuster is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering embedded and real-time systems for manned and unmanned aerospace platforms. Based in Panama City, Florida, he leads software and systems architecture efforts at Collins Aerospace across flight control, inertial navigation, engine control, and multi-agent autonomy, combining hands-on C/VHDL/FPGA design with technical program leadership. His background includes sonar, RF, and wireless communications work at Lockheed Martin and Exelis, and academic research building real-time beamforming hardware for MEMS acoustic arrays. An active contributor to flight controller firmware like Cleanflight—where he implemented servo filtering—he brings practical control-systems tuning experience to complex embedded stacks. Joel’s dual BS degrees and MS in Electrical Engineering underscore a deep hardware-software fluency that lets him optimize across signal processing, FPGA logic, and embedded software layers. Colleagues rely on him to translate demanding real-time requirements into robust, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cleanflight/cleanflight
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Clean-code version of the baseflight flight controller firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joel implemented and tested servo filtering functionality within the Cleanflight flight controller firmware. This involved adding lowpass filters and incorporating them into the servo output processing, with supporting code changes to the mixer.c, mixer.h and mw.c. Further contributions included configuring the servo filter and the adjustment of cutoff frequencies. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on improving servo control and performance within the flight controller system.
flightcontrollerfirmwarecleanflight-controller
fusterjj/HoneywellSecurityMQTT
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
MQTT integration of Honeywell/Ademco/2GIG wireless security sensors
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 11 months
sensorswireless-securitysecurityhoneywellwireless
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