Josh Davidson
Founder & Electrical Engineer at FlightGear
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Davidson is a founder and electrical engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in circuit design, PCB repair, and advanced fault diagnosis, including BGA rework. He runs Sterling Electronic Engineering, delivering consulting, send-in repair services, and instructional content while automating inventory and customer workflows. Alongside commercial work, he has built high-fidelity aircraft simulations and flight dynamics for FlightGear—models vetted by real pilots for types like the A320 and MD-11—bringing an uncommon blend of avionics accuracy and practical electronics skill. His background includes designing 8-layer mixed-signal PCBs, reverse engineering complex systems, and contributing to NASA RockSat-X hardware, demonstrating systems-level thinking from concept to launch. Based in Alabama, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with a passion for teaching and continuous learning, often turning repair cases into instructional material.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Github Skills (74)
minecraft10
simulator10
windows10
co-simulation10
runner10
matlab10
orbital-mechanics10
spice10
notepad10
reloaded10
internals10
java10
fmi10
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aircraft10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FGMEMBERS-NONGPL/MD-88
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
McDonnell Douglas MD-88 for FlightGear
Contributions:266 commits, 107 pushes in 7 years
flightgear
Octal450/DC-10
Oct 2024 - Jun 2026
A basic McDonnell Douglas DC-10 simulation for the open source simulator, FlightGear
Contributions:176 pushes, 1 branch, 8 issues in 1 year 8 months
simulationdouglasflightgearjsbsimmcdonnell
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