Taylor Kendall
Sr. Engineer - Avionics, Instruments & GNC at Blue Origin
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Kendall is a Sr. Engineer specializing in avionics, instruments, and GNC with a decade of experience turning physics-first thinking into reliable test automation and control systems. He blends hands-on LabVIEW and NI PXI expertise with software engineering best practices—leading SVN-to-Git migrations, CI/unit-test adoption, and cross-platform DAQ architectures used from benchtop experiments to thousand-channel test systems. At Blue Origin and Microsoft he built scalable test frameworks for rockets, data centers, and consumer hardware, reducing test times from weeks to days and enabling high-throughput, repeatable validation. Comfortable across electrical troubleshooting, control system architecture, and project leadership, he mentors engineers and designs production-ready test cells and DAS installations. Notably he pairs deep real-time and FPGA experience with user-facing automation and web services, making complex hardware approachable for operations teams. Based in Seattle, he enjoys applying the scientific process iteratively to solve hard problems and ship immediately useful systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Squalicum High ScoolBachelor of Science Physics, Bachelor of Science Physics at Central Washington UniversityN/A exchange student- Rotary international, N/A exchange student- Rotary international at Gymnasium Franziskaneum (Meißen, Sachsen)
English, German
Github Skills (78)
jetpack-compose10
compose9
plot9
kotlin-android9
kotlin9
player9
science8
drawing8
parser8
completions8
parsing8
visualization8
android8
invocation7
mechanism7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ansible42/LabVIEWGitCheatSheet
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
ansible42/nilrt
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Tools to build NI Linux RT distribution.
Contributions:67 pushes in 2 years 4 months
linuxdistribution
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