Tom Cooper
Software Design Engineer at KEYW Corporation
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTom Cooper is a software design engineer with 14 years of experience building embedded systems, networking software, and full-stack web applications from Baltimore. He blends low-level C firmware and custom RF protocol design for RTOS-based radios with server-side development in C, Java, Node.js and database work across SQLite and MS SQL. Tom has hands-on mapping and front-end experience using JavaScript, Leaflet and Bootstrap, plus desktop and Android tooling including C# GUIs and GPS-capture apps. His graduate research produced an open-source GSM femtocell integration and a co-authored IEEE/MILCOM paper, showing a rare mix of academic wireless research and production engineering. Comfortable shipping across Windows and Linux distributions, he also built Gnuradio-based waveform recorders and specialty testing tools, revealing a pattern of solving complex radio problems end-to-end. Pragmatic and multidisciplinary, Tom excels at translating radio research into operational firmware, services, and user-facing interfaces.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, BS, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics at Virginia TechOak Ridge High School
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Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tacooper/resume-goldberg-machine
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
tacooper/tacooper.github.io
Oct 2017 - Feb 2024
Contributions:174 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 6 years 4 months
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