Colin Waddell
Software Engineer
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorColin Waddell is an Avionics Architect based in Glasgow with 13 years of embedded and aerospace software experience, now shaping entire avionics platforms at Benchmark Space Systems. He specializes in dependable flight software—power management, command-and-control links, GNC algorithms, and low-level drivers—and brings hardware engineering depth from microcontroller design to propulsion systems. His discipline in Test-Driven and Behaviour-Driven Development, honed in hazardous offshore oil & gas projects, drives a relentless focus on reliability for systems that must survive launch and orbit. Outside work he runs a high-traffic weather site he built (1M hits/year), contributes to open-source projects, and keeps design and web skills sharp, blending technical rigor with creative product sense.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (40)
dot-matrix10
python10
hardware10
zero-configuration9
communication-protocol9
iot9
raspberry-pi9
modbus7
taps7
industrial-automation7
rest-api6
ascii-art6
documentation-generator6
django-rest-framework6
rest6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ColinWaddell/MyVim
Mar 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 2 months
ColinWaddell/TapsAff-Django
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:200 commits, 1 PR, 129 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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