Summary
Thomas Rackers is a retired scientific and engineering software developer with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and over 10 years of focused industry experience building real-time, embedded, and flight software for underwater, airborne, and space systems. He has a proven track record of designing data acquisition, sensor interfaces, and hardware-in-the-loop simulations across laboratory and unmanned craft environments, and has contributed to R&D efforts at organizations from Naval Surface Warfare Center to Aurora Flight Sciences and ATK Space Systems. Comfortable across software and hardware architectures, he has maintained and modernized scientific tools (including BLAST-supporting systems) and refactored Arduino libraries to improve usability with new IDE features. Equally at ease in research settings and applied engineering programs, he seeks R&D roles in aerospace or scientific technology where deep domain knowledge and practical systems experience converge.
10 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics at Thomas More University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics at The Ohio State University
English, japanese (learning)