Mathew Benson
CEO Chief Engineer at Windhover Labs
League City, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMathew Benson is a seasoned software engineer and startup founder with nearly two decades of experience in NASA and commercial space systems, now leading Windhover Labs as CEO and Chief Engineer. He architects safety-critical flight software and ground systems, having designed the Airliner flight software framework, Commander ground system, and test vehicle kernels. His background includes porting NASA Core Flight Software to ARINC 653 and human-rated platforms, developing fault-tolerant flight file systems for Orion EFT-1, and delivering an encrypted Iridium SBD link for autonomous NASA drones. Mathew combines hands-on driver and backend implementation with systems-level design and certification experience, uniquely bridging avionics, embedded OS ports, and ground-segment software. Based in League City, Texas, he still codes on customer projects and brings practical operational knowledge from ISS and Boeing program test work to commercial space efforts. A detail often overlooked: he has delivered flight software that survived radiation-induced upsets with zero data loss on a high-rate HD recording system.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Github Skills (41)
satellite10
ecosystem9
drones9
yaml-configuration9
auto-generate9
cfs9
portability8
mission-control8
abstraction-layer8
mavlink8
autopilot8
px47
kernel7
abstraction7
openflow7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
WindhoverLabs/airliner
Jan 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:63 reviews, 181 PRs, 568 pushes in 2 years 6 months
WindhoverLabs/sc
Aug 2019 - Feb 2023
Airliner Application: Stored Command
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 6 months
storedreact
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