Summary
Tom Krauss is an RF system engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and implementing signal-processing and communications systems, currently applying his expertise at Jump Trading. With deep hands-on skills in Python, C++, and MATLAB, he has a long track record in OFDM, MIMO, CDMA, array processing, and practical algorithm optimization for real-world hardware and standards like LTE. His career spans research, simulation, and production-facing work—from developing MATLAB toolboxes at MathWorks to prototyping modem algorithms and resampling libraries at Motorola and publishing open-source code. He combines rigorous academic training (PhD, Purdue) with a pragmatic focus on numerical computation platforms and collaborative tooling, often bridging algorithm development and version-controlled software engineering. Notably, he has contributed RF algorithm performance analyses to standards meetings and turned field data into deployed modem improvements, reflecting an uncommon blend of theoretical depth and deployment savvy.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Cornell University
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder