Niel Crews
Senior Engineer at Louisiana Tech University
Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiel Crews is a senior engineer and mechanical engineer with roughly a decade of R&D experience specializing in space payloads and biotech devices for personalized medicine. He combines deep theoretical skills in thermo-fluidics, dynamic systems, and computational modeling with hands-on expertise in hardware prototyping, failure diagnostics, and integrating custom and COTS subsystems. Niel has led federally funded projects—including a $1.5M tool for radiation biology—and developed patented microfluidic qPCR technology during a postdoc that achieved sub-10s thermocycling and simultaneous HRMA. As an academic leader and former director of a multi-disciplinary institute, he excels at building research programs, securing grants, and mentoring technical teams. Based in the Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville area, he bridges university research rigor with practical engineering execution for space and medical applications.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at Erskine CollegeThe University of UtahMS curriculum (transferred before completion), Applied Physics, MS curriculum (transferred before completion), Applied Physics at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityMaster's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of South Carolina
English, Spanish
Github Skills (71)
python10
automation10
esp3210
home-assistant10
mqtt10
camera10
yaml10
home-automation10
platformio10
iot10
esphome10
asyncio10
esp826610
privacy10
raspberry-pi10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NearlCrews/MyLittleHelper
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
NearlCrews/home-assistant-config
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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