Tim Upthegrove
Senior Research Engineer at Uninet LLC
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTim Upthegrove is a Senior Research Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering secure, high-performance networking systems, specializing in 5G, O-RAN, and tactical edge deployments. He has led distributed teams and acted as technical PM on NSF- and DARPA-funded projects, shipping Rust-based RAN controllers, NGAP implementations, and production-grade protocol and testbed tooling. His background spans low-level C/C++ network and routing code, Python automation for reproducible emulation experiments, and ML-assisted protocol/interoperability frameworks that speed development cycles. At Raytheon he bridged research and operations—managing SDR testbeds, DPDK-based NF performance tuning, and scalable Kafka-backed telemetry for forensic analysis. He combines rigorous academic training from Georgia Tech (BS/MS, CS, 4.0) with hands-on systems work, and has driven practical innovations like a Python code generator that cut protocol binding development time by 75%. Known for tackling messy integration problems, he often pairs systems engineering with lightweight ML or automation to make complex experiments repeatable and deployable.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyShanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English, Korean
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Github Skills (65)
perf10
profiling10
kafka-consumer9
ai9
developer-tools9
security9
perl9
librdkafka9
machine-learning9
python-extension9
data-science9
asn19
data-versioning9
unstructured-data9
apache-kafka9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gth828r/brownify
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:82 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 months
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