Timothy Kuehn
Software Engineer at SpaceX
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Kuehn is a software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building embedded and real-time systems, currently developing avionics software at SpaceX. He has deep C++ expertise applied to aerospace, defense, and robotics, and has worked on advanced GPS receivers and avionics during internships at BAE Systems and Collins Aerospace. As a long-time robotics leader at Iowa State, he drove ROS2-based autonomy and human-machine interfaces for competition-scale robots and helped organize multi-team events. Timothy contributes full-stack improvements to prominent open-source robotics tooling like The Blue Alliance, adding media-rich match features and social integrations. He is focused on mission-critical, low-latency software and seeks to advance autonomy and embedded systems for challenging flight and robotic applications. Based in Los Angeles, he combines systems-level thinking with practical UI/UX sensibilities honed through app and frontend projects.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (10)
html10
robot10
css10
robotics10
instagram10
jinja29
javascript9
python8
react6
git3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance
May 2016 - Mar 2017
A webapp for accessing information about the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 23 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Timothy contributed to the front-end and back-end of the web application, implementing features and fixing bugs. They added new features for the match view, including a two-column layout and video embedding, and enhanced the insights page by embedding videos. The user also added functionality to include Instagram to team social media, and they made improvements to the event media examples.
first-robotics-competitionreactroboticsfirst-frcfirst-robotics
tsteward/link-five
Jul 2021 - Jan 2025
Inspired by the game Cinco Linko by Big Potato Games
Contributions:40 reviews, 36 PRs, 88 pushes in 3 years 6 months
gamegamespotatoflutter
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