Leigha Capra
Senior Systems Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolLeigha Capra is a Senior Systems Engineer with a decade of systems and integration experience, currently shaping complex mechanical and optical system requirements at General Dynamics Mission Systems. She translates customer contracts into testable engineering requirements, authors project-defining specification documents, and designs verification plans using DOORS and MagicDraw while coordinating subcontractor procurements and acceptance testing. Her background spans systems engineering, risk management, and hands-on testbed development for NASA-affiliated research, where she built Python libraries, simulated satellite nodes, and contributed to mission modeling with MBSE. Leigha pairs technical rigor with clear stakeholder communication—presenting risks and status to internal and external audiences and building PowerBI dashboards to track programmatic risk. She brings practical experience from autonomy and vehicle simulation work, having developed motion-planner simulations and data-processing tools that moved prototypes toward operational readiness. Based in Hoboken, NJ, Leigha combines aerospace research smarts with enterprise defense program delivery, often bridging interdisciplinary teams to turn ambiguous needs into verifiable system behavior.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
West Essex High SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
spacex9
deep-learning5
pytorch5
testbed5
space5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Leigha777/Financial-Calculator
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Leigha777/coupon_organizer
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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