Kevin Burleigh
Staff Software Engineer - Signal Processing at Northrop Grumman
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Burleigh is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in signal processing with 13+ years of experience translating advanced DSP, math, and physics problems into production-grade software for embedded and *nix-like systems. He has a long tenure at Northrop Grumman building automated signal detection, characterization, and geolocation algorithms and currently applies that domain expertise to complex defense-grade systems. Kevin emphasizes testability, deployability, and scalable design—skills honed during his work on OpenStax products and earlier medical-ultrasound diagnostic tooling. Comfortable in C++ and system-level development, he brings hands-on experience across the full lifecycle from initial hardware bring-up to operational deployments. Based in San Jose and grounded in an MIT EECS education, he blends rigorous academic training with practical engineering pragmatism, often tackling problems where algorithmic nuance and systems constraints intersect.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyVisiting graduate student coursework, Visiting graduate student coursework at Rice UniversityStanford University
Github Skills (20)
notebook10
persistent10
markdown7
authentication7
textbook6
computer-science5
science5
ruby5
rails5
algorithms5
aws-autoscaling4
mortar3
css2
javascript2
frontend2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstax/napkin-notes
Apr 2015 - Nov 2019
:notebook: virtual back-of-a-napkin notes (persistent non-structured discussions)
Contributions:532 commits, 4 PRs, 529 pushes in 4 years 7 months
notebooknotespersistentstructured
kevinburleigh75/aws_autoscaling
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
Some AWS autoscaling experiments.
Contributions:198 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 11 months
aws-autoscaling
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