Daniel Williams
General Manager at Keith & Keith Funeral Home
Selah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Williams is a seasoned funeral services leader with over a decade of hands-on experience managing operations, events, and client care across multiple funeral homes in Washington. As General Manager he combines operational rigor and compassionate customer service—skills grounded in an A.A.S. in Mortuary Science and Embalming—from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He has a track record of improving event planning and service delivery while steering teams through sensitive, high-stakes situations. Unusually for the field, Daniel also contributes technical back-end code to open-source projects like OpenRocket and PX4, where he’s fixed simulation bugs and improved automation tooling, reflecting a practical, detail-oriented problem-solving approach. Based in Selah, WA, he brings both community-rooted leadership and a rare blend of technical and operational expertise to funeral home management.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Mortuary Science and Embalming/Embalmer, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Mortuary Science and Embalming/Embalmer at Lake Washington Institute of Technology
Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
regular-expression10
javas10
automation10
automations10
python10
java10
autopilot9
refactoring9
simulations9
drones9
simulation9
mavlink8
ros8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openrocket/openrocket
Nov 2015 - Dec 2020
Model-rocketry aerodynamics and trajectory simulation software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 410 commits, 279 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Java-based aerodynamics and trajectory simulation software. Their commits involved code refactoring, including renaming variables for clarity and fixing mass calculation issues related to instancing and overrides. They also addressed simulation bugs by streamlining event handling and improving motor management within the simulation engine. Further work included updates to unit tests and bug fixes to the component configuration code.
simulationaerospaceflight-simulatorjavamodeling
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Automation EngineerContributions:36 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `uorb-graph` tool within the PX4 autopilot project. Their work involved refactoring the script, expanding its functionality to handle various test cases, and improving its debugging capabilities. They also introduced a pythonic `__main__` idiom and broadened the regex for ambiguous subscription arrays. The user also implemented fixes to regex definitions.
px4pixhawkuavuasdronecode
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