Willard Wider
Principal Electrical Engineer at BAE Systems, Inc.
Milford, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolWillard Wider is a Principal Electrical Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience in FPGA verification and embedded systems, now leading hardware engineering efforts at BAE Systems after senior roles at Raytheon Technologies. He combines strong fluency in C-style and hardware description languages with practical expertise in Linux, scripting, and build automation to deliver robust test and verification flows for complex computer hardware. A Wentworth Institute of Technology Computer Engineering graduate, he has progressed from co-op and internship roles into technical leadership, routinely bridging SQA, BIOS, and verification disciplines. Known for pragmatic debugging and test automation skills, he has a track record of improving development throughput in defense and aerospace environments. Based in Milford, NH, he brings both hands-on verification depth and systems-level perspective to mission-critical hardware projects.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (39)
installer10
fastest10
backend10
mongodb10
mysql9
postgresql9
sql9
database9
firefox-addon7
chrome-extension7
keyboard7
xml-document6
webclient6
chrome6
google-drive-api6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Willster419/xvmConfig
May 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
Willster419/YoutubeTagger
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
Downloads youtube videos as audio and tags them based on an xml document
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 242 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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