Kirk Westfall
Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation
California, United States
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Top SchoolKirk Westfall is a seasoned software engineer with over 10 years of focused experience in real-time embedded systems, currently developing flight control firmware for Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk program. His background spans avionics, wireless communications, tracking firmware, device drivers, and 3D graphics internals, with deep hands-on expertise in cross-development environments, JTAG, protocol analyzers, and symbolic debugging. He has led teams and technical efforts at Omnitracs and CalAmp, driving embedded firmware design for vehicle and trailer tracking systems and guiding schedules from requirements to production. Comfortable partnering with hardware leads and customers alike, Kirk combines low-level optimization skills with systems-level architecture and long tenure in safety- and mission-critical domains. An understated asset is his early work integrating X-Windows into proprietary OS environments, reflecting a willingness to tackle thorny platform and portability challenges.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
California State University-FullertonBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (47)
reduction10
python10
astronomy10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrophysics10
astropy10
astrology10
pipeline10
science10
astrodynamics10
ccd9
data-analysis9
gtk8
policies8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kbwestfall/NIRVANA
Sep 2020 - Jun 2023
Forward modeling MaNGA velocity fields with a nonaxisymmetric radially binned model a la Spekkens & Sellwood (2007)
Contributions:37 PRs, 208 pushes, 42 branches in 2 years 9 months
radiallyfieldsmodelingvelocitymanga
Keck-FOBOS/producer
Aug 2021 - Mar 2024
Software for planning FOBOS observations.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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