Mike Walters
State Trooper
Henderson, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Walters is a Nevada State Trooper and member of the Multidisciplinary Investigation and Reconstruction Team (MIRT) with 15 years of experience investigating serious and fatal crashes, collecting scene evidence with total stations, UAVs, and forensic photography, and coordinating with coroner and prosecutorial offices. Before law enforcement he earned a Computer Engineering degree from UNLV and spent years as an electrical/embedded engineer working on radiation detection, human-interaction devices, and PC/firmware bring-up at NSTec and a startup. He combines field-facing investigative rigor with deep hands-on electronics and embedded software skills—having contributed to notable open-source SDR projects like hackrf, luna, and qspectrumanalyzer. His work on SDR firmware, gateware, and analysis tools shows a rare blend of low-level hardware bring-up, signal-processing enhancements, and UI integration. That cross-domain background gives him a practical edge in technical troubleshooting and system-level thinking during complex crash reconstructions. Based in Henderson, NV, he brings disciplined project execution and continuous improvement from lab bench to roadside.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Github Skills (27)
rft10
fftw10
rfe10
c-language10
python10
sdl10
firmware10
fm-radio10
usb10
c-programming10
hardware10
fft10
f10
sys10
fpga10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
miek/inspectrum
Jun 2015 - Oct 2022
Radio signal analyser
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 5 reviews, 430 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on developing the UI and displaying the radio signal analyzer. They implemented several features to draw spectrogram images, enabling zoom and center. They also added a command-line argument for FFT size and integrated a file picker for data loading. The user's contributions included drawing time axis labels and handling mouse events for zooming, as well as refactoring the codebase.
signalheart-ratesoftware-defined-radioanalyseraudio
greatscottgadgets/luna
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Amaranth HDL framework for monitoring, hacking, and developing USB devices
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 58 commits, 86 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributes to the gateware components of the project, focusing on hardware design and testing. Their commits include implementing and testing PHY read-back functionality, fixing issues related to the USB Integrated Logic Analyzer, and improving the HyperRAM diagnostics applet. Additionally, the user has made changes to the platform definition and test utilities, indicating involvement in the hardware bring-up and test automation aspects of the project.
developinghdlusbmultitoolusb-devices
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