Nicholas Kain
Software Engineer Sr at Lockheed Martin
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Kain is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience, currently developing real-time call processing software for the Iridium Next satellite constellation at Lockheed Martin in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He specializes in full life-cycle C/C++ development, code reuse and porting, and both component- and system-level integration, with on-site customer support experience for mission-critical systems. A University of South Carolina computer science graduate with a strong GPA, he is augmenting his systems perspective through an M.S. in Systems Engineering at George Washington University. Across a long tenure at Lockheed Martin, he has progressed through increasing technical responsibility on aerospace communications software, blending hands-on coding with integration and field support. Known for practical problem-solving in real-time embedded environments, he brings a discipline for rigorous testing and reuse that keeps complex satellite systems reliable in production.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.76, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.76 at University of South Carolina-ColumbiaMaster of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering, 3.8, Master of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering, 3.8 at The George Washington University
English
Github Skills (18)
ffmpeg10
mpv10
audio10
sysv10
video-player10
player10
daemon9
segment9
cli9
multimedia9
shared-memory8
libav8
mplayer8
musl6
dns6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
niklata/ncron
Nov 2010 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 161 commits, 43 pushes in 12 years
niklata/snd-egd
Mar 2010 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 100 commits, 21 pushes in 12 years 7 months
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