Matthew Mcdougal
Deputy Payload Adapter Engineering Lead (Detail) at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Mcdougal is a senior engineering leader and hands-on technologist with nine years of professional experience and a long career in Nondestructive Evaluation, industrial automation, and embedded systems at NASA. He leads multidisciplinary teams, develops inspection and motion-control software, and currently serves as Deputy Payload Adapter Engineering Lead supporting the SLS Block 1B program. Equally comfortable in the lab and the codebase, he has contributed full‑stack UI work to open-source monitoring tooling (Chronograf) and still enjoys “hacking” on systems to understand and repurpose them. Known for translating complex standards and inspection requirements into practical, auditable processes, he combines subject-matter expertise in ultrasonic sensing with software and automation skills. Based in Huntsville with a 3.8 BS in Computer Engineering, he brings a pragmatic, curious approach to solving aerospace engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 3.8, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 3.8 at University of Alabama in Huntsville
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
kapacitor10
alerts10
redux10
react10
visualizations9
visualization9
testing7
go5
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/chronograf
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Open source monitoring and visualization UI for the TICK stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the frontend of the Chronograf project, focusing on the user interface for managing Kapacitor rules. They implemented new features related to alert options, including "noRecoveries" and "stateChangesOnly" for alerts. Their work involved modifying React components, Redux reducers, and actions, as well as writing tests. They also addressed linting issues and fixed a server-side path issue.
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mmdoogie/embed-stl
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 30 commits, 9 pushes in 1 month
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