Ralph Hightower
Photographer at Ralph Hightower
Chapin, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRalph Hightower is a seasoned software developer and systems programmer with decades of experience spanning assembly and legacy mainframes to modern C#/.NET Windows applications. He has a proven track record delivering practical solutions—most notably a VSTO tool that synced NASA shuttle schedules to Outlook and was published publicly—alongside enterprise work automating services, migrating legacy systems, and diagnosing elusive production faults. Comfortable across Windows, Unix/Linux, and a broad array of languages from Fortran and PL/1 to C# and Java, he combines deep low-level knowledge with applied software architecture. Based in Chapin, SC, he pairs his technical career with a longtime passion for photography (35mm film to digital), documenting historic spaceflight events and producing published work. Collected vintage computing hardware and an affinity for solving brittle integration problems make him especially adept at rescuing and modernizing fragile systems. He brings methodical troubleshooting, practical engineering, and a curious INTP mindset to both code and creative pursuits.
8 years of coding experience
46 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of South Carolina-Columbia
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (184)
windows10
fits10
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shuttle10
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cdma10
syncthing10
unix10
software-design10
photography10
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onstar10
eol10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
RalphHightower/opennms
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Enterprise-Grade Open-Source Network Management Platform
Contributions:23 pushes in 1 year 1 month
RalphHightower/openpilot
Apr 2023 - Aug 2024
openpilot is an open source driver assistance system. openpilot performs the functions of Automated Lane Centering and Adaptive Cruise Control for over 200 supported car makes and models.
Contributions:113 pushes in 1 year 4 months
adaptive-cruise-controlautomated-lane-centeringdriver-assistance
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