Nick Foster
Principal at Corvid Research, LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Foster is a Principal electrical engineer with 15+ years designing RF, mixed-signal, and software-defined radio systems, combining deep hands-on hardware work with FPGA and embedded software development. He has led greenfield prototype efforts—including the world’s first operational ultra-low-latency shortwave network for finance—building everything from FPGA IP to tower installs. Proficient with Xilinx families (Spartan, Kintex, Zynq), high-speed transports (PCIe, USB3), DDR3, ADC/DAC architectures, and advanced clocking, he pairs that with strong DSP skills in GNU Radio, Python, and C++. His background spans sensitive, weight- and power-constrained avionics to calibrated cinematic LED systems, showing an uncommon comfort switching domains and scales. A long-term Altium user and open-source contributor to GNU Radio (HDLC framer/deframer and DSP fixes), he brings practical QA and link-modeling experience up to 10 GHz. Based in San Francisco, he prefers prototype-driven, novel engineering challenges over high-volume production.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Northeastern University
Github Skills (13)
fm-radio10
c-language10
cpp10
software-defined-radio10
dspic10
cprogramming-language10
cplus10
gnuradio10
rad10
dspace10
signal-processing10
digital-signal-processing10
python9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gnuradio/gnuradio
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Digital Signal Processing Engineer
Back-end Developer / Digital Signal Processing EngineerContributions:3 commits, 9 PRs, 31 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the digital signal processing components within the GNU Radio project. Their work involved fixing bugs related to differential modulations in the digital domain and simplifying existing code related to access code correlation. The user also added new functionality, specifically an HDLC deframer and framer, and implemented associated QA code to test the HDLC implementation. These changes indicate a focus on improving the reliability and functionality of digital communication blocks within the SDR ecosystem.
pythonwirelessc-plus-pluscybersecuritycommunications
bistromath/gr-air-modes
Jul 2011 - Feb 2021
Gnuradio Mode-S/ADS-B radio
Contributions:45 commits, 15 PRs, 23 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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