Josh Day
Mechatronics Engineer
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Day is a software-oriented mechatronics engineer with eight years of experience designing, testing, and qualifying flight hardware for NASA missions including Mars 2020, Mars Sample Return, and Europa Clipper. He blends hands-on hardware development with strong computational skills, developing MATLAB and Python tools for dynamics modeling, test-data analysis, and simulation, and has built embedded control systems using Arduino and Raspberry Pi. His graduate work fused computer vision and Kalman filtering to extract high-confidence thrust estimates from camera data, reflecting a knack for turning noisy experimental signals into actionable metrics. At JPL he owned both detailed test campaigns and cross-disciplinary coordination with vendors and safety teams, ensuring designs met strict aerospace standards. Comfortable soldering PCBs and writing numerical code, he brings a practical, end-to-end mindset from prototyping through qualification. Based in Pasadena, he pairs aerospace rigor with a tinkerer’s curiosity—enjoying algorithm design and data analysis beyond formal dev roles.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (12)
discord-bot10
discord9
nodejs8
matlab6
javascript6
robotics5
python3
remote-control2
windows-subsystem-for-linux2
custom-cell1
latex1
command-line1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jwday/latex_cv
Oct 2020 - May 2024
CV written using LaTeX
Contributions:33 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 7 months
latex-templatelatex
jwday/remoteProp
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
Remote control of propulsion system
Contributions:130 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
remote-controlpropulsion
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