Summary
Stefen Sharkey is an embedded software engineer with 14 years of experience building safety-critical, real-time systems for NASA programs and commercial lunar missions. He has repeatedly been recognized by NASA and CACI for exceptional test and verification work, and currently develops flight-grade software for the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit. His background includes integrating multi-vendor flight software for the Lunar Gateway, porting portable NASA cFS applications across architectures and RTOSes, and developing low-level hardware drivers for RS-422/serial interfaces. He routinely formalizes testing environments and automates verification tooling in C, C++, and Python to reduce QA cycle time and surface subtle system defects early. Prior roles in high-performance space computing and automotive/computer-vision firmware give him a broad embedded toolbelt and practical systems-level debugging skills. Outside of spacecraft work, his mix of military discipline and hands-on lab integration suggests an engineer comfortable leading complex, multidisciplinary test campaigns.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at SUNY Brockport
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Monroe Community College
Student, Student at Fairport High School