Ryan Hamilton
Head Of Instrumentation
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Hamilton is a Head of Instrumentation and instrument scientist with a PhD in astronomy and over a decade of hands-on experience designing, repairing, and modernizing telescope instrumentation and observatory operations. At Lowell Observatory he leads a multidisciplinary team, introduced portfolio management and modern tooling (GitHub/Gitea, Confluence, OpenProject, JIRA), and rebuilt decades-old monitoring and cryogenic systems to enable reliable, replicable remote sites. Previously he shepherded complex far- and near-infrared instruments on NASA’s SOFIA (HAWC+, FLITECAM), spanning hardware, software, and data workflows. Equally comfortable soldering hardware and shipping software, he contributes embedded networking improvements to CircuitPython’s wifi stack, reflecting a pragmatic preference for open-source, off-the-shelf solutions. Decisive and creative, he favors impactful engineering over temporary fixes and brings a talent for solving thorny, cross-domain problems under operational constraints.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy at New Mexico State UniversityB.S, Physics, B.S, Physics at Villanova University
Github Skills (11)
esp3210
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
microcontroller10
py10
python10
sys10
s210
wifi10
c119
c179
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/circuitpython
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `wifi` module within the CircuitPython project, adding features and functionality related to network connectivity. The contributions involved modifying code for ESP32-S2 ports to handle BSSID connections, as well as adding API features such as RSSI, DNS, gateway, and subnet information. These changes extended the wifi Radio class in shared-bindings, shared-bindings and the ESP32S2 specific HAL.
pythonpython-implementationteachingmicrocontrollerpython3
LowellObservatory/ligmos
May 2018 - Aug 2024
Various common/core utilities and gizmos used across a few different codes. LIG + gizmos = ligmos
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 333 pushes in 6 years 3 months
golangtupleactivemqparamikogizmos
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