Summary
Stephen Cassedy is a Software Engineer IV at Textron Systems with eight years of hands-on experience building C++/Qt applications for unmanned land and air systems, currently leading the software team for the A5000 program and supporting Shadow V2. He is the SME and primary contact for multiple software applications, owning the full development lifecycle from estimates and requirements through static analysis, coverage, builds, and formal releases. Comfortable with embedded and safety-conscious toolchains, he regularly uses Jenkins, Mercurial, DOORS, Parasoft, and Bullseye to keep complex avionics software auditable and mission-ready. A product-minded engineer with a dual background in computer science and mechanical engineering, he began his career through Textron’s Leadership Development Program and still mentors new engineers. He earned a perfect 4.0 MEng in Computer Science while continuing to deliver production-critical systems, reflecting both academic rigor and practical delivery. Notably, his early work spans robotics, lab instrumentation scripting, and manufacturing automation, giving him a breadth of systems-level perspective uncommon in software specialists.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 4.0 at Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals
English, Spanish, Japanese