Keith Erickson
Realtime Linux Engineering Lead at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Erickson is a Senior Principal real-time engineer and Realtime Linux Engineering Lead at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory with over a decade of experience designing and delivering low-latency systems on commercial hardware and RedHawk Linux/RTOS platforms. He combines deep systems-level expertise—C/C++, concurrency, networking and infrastructure—with a background in UML, Ada and embedded-oriented tooling to solve deterministic performance challenges. His career spans defense-grade systems at Lockheed Martin and hands-on technical leadership in both institutional research and applied IT, reflecting an ability to bridge rigorous engineering requirements with operational realities. Based in New Jersey, he leverages practical experience from technical roles in education and theater production to bring unconventional troubleshooting and systems-integration perspectives. Known for pragmatic engineering judgment, he excels at turning real-time principles into reliable, production-grade solutions for demanding environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (18)
data-management10
fusion10
data-processing10
data-visualization10
science6
php6
kotlin6
distributed-computing6
java6
notice5
android5
grid4
python4
scientific-computing4
boinc3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (4)
MDSplus/mdsplus
Oct 2013 - Jan 2018
The MDSplus data management system
Contributions:2 reviews, 742 commits, 40 PRs in 4 years 3 months
management-systemdata-managementdata-processingfusiondata-visualization
Nexus-Mods/Nexus-Mod-Manager
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
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