John Apfelbaum
Professional Audio at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Palm Bay, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Apfelbaum is an experienced aerospace engineer and operations project lead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with over three decades in human spaceflight hardware processing and 11 years of documented professional experience. He leads launch team training for the Space Launch System using software models and flight emulators and chairs cross-organizational teams on Orion electrical systems, translating complex flight operations into executable procedures. Before NASA, he drove ground system development and software test improvements for the GOES-R program as a resident officer at L3Harris, fostering strong government-contractor collaboration. Beyond aerospace, he designs and restores vacuum-tube hi-fi amplifiers, runs professional sound services through CarCynic Sound, and built enduring touchscreen drivers for Linux distributions via Linuxslate.com. A founding member of the MultiGP drone racing league and a licensed ham radio operator, he blends hands-on electronics, flight systems insight, and creative hobbyist engineering in both professional and community settings. Notably, his long-running hobby sites and embedded-driver work predate mainstream mobile OS adoption, reflecting a track record of practical innovation ahead of the curve.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Florida International University
Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
spiffs10
nodemcu10
esp82669
firmware9
espressif9
lua9
esp329
aircraft8
rc7
controller7
embedded6
autopilot6
drones4
configurator2
google-chrome2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
marcelstoer/nodemcu-custom-build
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 commits in 11 months
openLRSng/openLRSng
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Configurable firmware for openLRS compatible TX/RX systems
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 comments, 1 issue in 1 month
configurablefirmware
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