Wade Hampton
Principal Engineer Manager at BAE Systems
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolWade Hampton is a Principal Engineer Manager with over three decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering mission-critical systems, currently leading engineering teams at BAE Systems. An early Linux and open source adopter since the late 1980s, he combines embedded-hardware expertise with large-scale Linux cluster, virtualization, and long‑uptime software design to produce cost-effective solutions that saved his government customer tens of millions. He’s equally fluent in low-level device drivers, network protocol design, storage/archive formats, and modern tooling like Docker and KVM, and has authored extensive technical specifications and operational documentation. A proven team builder and customer-facing leader, Wade blends systems engineering rigor with practical operational support for 24x7 deployments. Unusually for a manager, he continues to contribute code across C/C++, Python, Go, and scripting languages while shaping cross-domain transfer and security solutions subject to DISA STIGs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration, Management and Operations, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration, Management and Operations at Nova Southeastern UniversityHigh School, High school diploma, High School, High school diploma at Oak HallBS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Florida
Spanish
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Github Skills (45)
video-production6
embedded6
xml6
c896
c996
video-editing6
video-quality6
escaping6
perl6
inheritance6
poisson6
openshot6
dedicated6
editing5
midi5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wadester/wh_test_py
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:108 pushes in 8 months
wadester/wh_test_glib
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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