Ronald Burkey
Quality Manager at SmartBolts
Middletown, Maryland, United States
Summary
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RockstarRonald Burkey is a quality-focused engineering professional with nine years of experience driving manufacturing and process improvements across industrial and aerospace environments. He currently serves as Quality Manager at SmartBolts after leading quality functions at Industrial Indicators and earlier working in component and systems engineering roles at Jabil and Honeywell. Ronald blends hands-on systems engineering roots with sales and account experience at Fastenal and Fusion Sourcing, enabling him to translate customer needs into robust quality solutions. He contributes to open-source engineering work as a back-end developer and systems engineer on the well-known virtualagc project, where he built a Python-based DSKY peripheral and improved network protocol handling. Based in Middletown, Maryland, he is comfortable bridging technical teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to deliver auditable, practical process improvements. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs legacy aerospace discipline with modern software-enabled tooling.
9 years of coding experience
41 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
python10
reverse-engineering9
sys9
system9
develop8
simulation8
simulations8
simulate7
simulator7
emulation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
virtualagc/virtualagc
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 2878 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ronald primarily contributed to the development of the virtual Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) simulator software, focusing on creating a Python-based peripheral for interaction with the AGC. Their work included writing a script for simulating a DSKY (display and keyboard) interface using Python, implementing a working TCP socket communication for the peripheral, and improving the system's handling of packets. They also fixed bugs related to the network protocol used in yaAGC and the correct display of variable register displays.
guidanceagcapolloapollo-guidance-computer
avtobiff/virtualagc
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1105 commits in 1 year 3 months
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