Derek Redfern
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Redfern is a Staff Autonomy Software Engineer with 13 years of firmware and systems experience across consumer electronics, spacecraft, automotive, and robotics. He has led platform architecture, functional safety, board bringup, and system integration at companies including Zoox and Spire, where he shipped avionics for a 40+ cubesat constellation. Comfortable owning requirements through production, he blends low-level RTOS/C embedded work with cross-team coordination to unblock complex autonomous systems. Outside product development he runs technical ops for a live performance collective and brings practical maker skills to hardware debug and PCB tinkering. Based in San Francisco, he prefers direct company contacts and pairs methodical engineering with an appetite for backpacking the AT or unicycling the city.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,009reputation
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28answers
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Github Skills (21)
filter9
google-docs7
pandora7
parsing7
syntax6
gtk6
conventions6
subscript6
python6
git6
phabricator6
data-structures5
gnome5
latex5
data-structure5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
madisonmay/coplay
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:85 commits in 2 months
redfern314/southwest-search
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
Search, sort, and filter Southwest flights based on a number of parameters.
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years 5 months
parametersflightsfiltersort
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