Experience
Flight Software Engineer II
Gilmour Space Technologies
05/26 — Now
GC, AUS
- Recovered a 3-year-old unmaintained Zynq-7000 project, including reverse engineering AMP PS configuration found on an old development board which used remoteproc and reserved memory partitioning
- Rebuilt the boot chain from scratch into a reproducible PetaLinux 2020.2 pipeline for the Trenz TE0720 SoM, verified boot-to-login from QSPI with persistent EXT4 rootfs on eMMC
- Root-caused an intermittent Gigabit Ethernet fault on a Microchip PolarFire SoC board to a physical-layer signal-integrity defect on the SGMII trace, isolating MAC, PHY, and driver behaviour via MDIO register reads (phytool) and kernel/device-tree changes in Yocto
Flight Software Engineer I
Gilmour Space Technologies
01/25 — 06/26
GC, AUS
- Built the C++17 acquisition core on ARM Cortex-A9 flight hardware, deriving per-card drain scheduling generically from FIFO depth and configured rate to hold a 50% headroom margin against overrun across heterogeneous card models spanning 1 kHz to 100 kHz
- Authored unit and integration test suites in Catch2 covering acquisition and application logic with >80% line coverage
- Built configuration tooling, generators, parsers, and schema validation, allowing sensor and deployment configuration changes without code modification
- Extended and maintained a Go microservice consuming DAQ telemetry over multicast IP
- Established CMake-based cross-compilation for ARM Cortex-A9 targets
- Containerised the toolchain with Docker, standardising builds, linting, and formatting across inconsistent developer environments
- Created one-click GitLab CI/CD deployment tooling in Ansible, allowing operators to update flight software without engineering involvement
Embedded Software Engineer (internship & contract)
Fisher & Paykel Technologies
11/22 — 01/25
ALK, NZ
- Developed application-level control algorithms in C simulating a weight stack via motor control
- Designed and implemented automated hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure in Python
- Implemented continuous integration with Bitbucket Pipelines and automated Linux development environment setup
C++ Software Engineer (internship & contract)
Crown Equipment Corporation
11/23 — 11/24
ALK, NZ
- Implemented navigation and motion control algorithms in C++23 for autonomous guided vehicles, including rear-wheel feedback, LQR, and MPC controllers
- Validated controllers in simulation and on real working autonomous forklifts
Teaching Assistant
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
02/23 — 06/24
ALK, NZ
- Taught bare-metal c programming on the Atmel AT90USB1287 and object-oriented design in C# / .NET
- Supported students through Altium Designer, PCB assembly, and hardware bring-up
Electrician
Victor Brown Electrical (1977)
06/17 — 01/21
DUD, NZ
- Managed and executed electrical projects including switchboard replacements, heat pump installations, and solar installations