Nic Mallory
Guidance Navigation & Controls Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNic Mallory is a Guidance, Navigation & Controls engineer with 11 years’ experience designing and implementing flight-control algorithms, simulations, and system architectures for aircraft, launch vehicles, and spacecraft at Northrop Grumman. He brings hands-on expertise in control law development, state estimation, and statistical navigation processing, honed across advanced programs and earlier NASA-contracted work improving the Air Traffic Operations Laboratory. Nic’s academic work extended pseudo-sliding mode adaptive control to rotorcraft, a niche application that informs his approach to robust adaptive guidance in real systems. He’s comfortable spanning theory to practice—building simulation tools, integrating sensors, and specifying hardware/software requirements for verification and testing. Based in San Diego, he combines aerospace-research rigor with field-tested engineering from helicopter prototyping to full-scale vehicle simulation. Beyond core GNC skills, he has a track record of applying novel tuning and sensor-integration techniques to challenging dynamic platforms.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Science & Engineering, 3.51, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Science & Engineering, 3.51 at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (1)
robot3
Github contributions (5)
nmpandafish6/FortressGames_TGG
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 releases, 48 commits, 44 pushes in 1 month
nmpandafish6/ProjectNotHotBabyAndroidApp
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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