Kurt Hill
Senior Software Engineer at Pyka
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Hill is a Senior Software Engineer and experimental physicist based in Oakland with 10 years of programming experience building autonomy software for aircraft and years of particle-physics research experience. At Pyka he has worked across the full stack—device drivers to UI—specializing in sensor fusion, mapping, and spatial awareness for autonomous aircraft. His PhD-level background in statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation informs a methodical approach to assimilating uncertain data into decision-making systems. Prior work on international collider experiments (PHENIX, sPHENIX, ATLAS, STAR) included detector monitoring, reconstruction software, and leading published analyses, giving him deep hands-on experience with large-scale data pipelines. He combines experimental rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver robust embedded and autonomy systems that perform under noisy, real-world conditions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at University of California, DavisDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of Colorado Boulder
English
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Github Skills (20)
simulator9
unreal9
platform-independent9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
control-systems8
airsim7
simulation7
robotics7
computer-vision7
powershell6
error-handling6
self-driving-car6
drones6
cross-platform6
artificial-intelligence6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kurthill/analysis
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
hostingpythonanalyzesimulation
kurthill/coresoftware
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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