Kyle Foster
Principal Test Engineer at Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI)
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Foster is a Principal Test Engineer with 13 years of experience designing, integrating, and validating firmware and mission systems for aerospace programs, currently leading critical-path testing and lab standup for a major USAF program. Trained in computer engineering with a foundation in VHDL and digital logic, he has built high-performance FPGA systems for RF ingest, VITA 49.2 packetization, PCIe and JESD integration, and partial-reconfiguration experiments. His career spans hands-on firmware design at Ball Aerospace and systems engineering roles at Northrop Grumman, where he developed camera and UAV payload processing pipelines and managed complex qualification and documentation flows. Equally comfortable refactoring front-end docs and UI with TailwindCSS on open-source projects, he blends deep low-level hardware expertise with pragmatic software and tooling improvements. Known for orchestrating repeatable lab processes and automated builds, he brings a systems-minded approach to turning sophisticated requirements into testable, deployable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Frank W. Cox High SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University
Github Skills (8)
tailwind10
tailwindcss10
documentation10
ui-design9
markdown-it8
markdown8
html8
css7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
superfly/docs
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 8 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kyle's primary focus was on updating and expanding the documentation site for Fly.io. They added a new brand assets page, including various logo variants and usage guidelines. Furthermore, they performed significant refactoring, converting existing code to TailwindCSS and updating the navigation structure. The contributions spanned UI/UX, documentation, and site structure.
superfly/graceful
Jul 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 review, 16 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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