Peter Fetterer
Instrument Subsystem Lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Bowie, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Fetterer is an electrical and RF systems engineer with 12 years of spacecraft communications and instrument subsystem leadership at NASA Goddard, currently leading FPGA, PCB, and analog/ADC design for lidar range measurement systems. He blends deep FPGA/VHDL expertise on Xilinx platforms with embedded Linux, C/C++, Python and scripting skills to deliver software-defined radio waveforms and CCSDS-compliant satellite communications. His background spans hands-on RF system deployment, testing and space network integration, informed by earlier work in mission operations and communications standards test labs. Based in Bowie, Maryland, he is comfortable moving between low-level hardware implementation and system-level communications architecture—often translating complex spaceflight requirements into deployable, testable instrument subsystems. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained career-long focus on bringing lab-tested SDR and waveform work into operational space missions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
EE Electrical Engineering, EE Electrical Engineering at Capitol Technology University
Github Skills (6)
ethernet4
gnuradio2
rust1
bare-metal1
bokeh1
risc-v1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kb3gtn/Nucleo_STM32F439_Eth_Bootstrap
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
Example for NUCLEO-F439ZI board using ethernet and LAN8742A PHY.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
ethernet
kb3gtn/SDR_STUFF
May 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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