Zachary Lacey
Member Of Technical Staff - Flight Systems Software Enfineer at The Aerospace Corporation
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Lacey is a flight systems software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience bridging aerospace verification & validation and field robotics. At The Aerospace Corporation he performs IV&V for mission-critical flight software on ULA’s Vulcan Centaur and helped develop a high-performance C++20 6DOF vehicle simulator integrated into SIL/HIL environments. His background spans autonomy, VIO tuning on embedded ZYNQ platforms, and legged-robot kinematics—having derived and implemented closed-loop parallel mechanism models for a climbing quadruped that carried 10 kg and achieved walking and climbing capabilities. Comfortable across Ada, Fortran, C++, Python, MATLAB and ROS, he combines rigorous safety-focused engineering for launch vehicles with a maker’s drive to build and test robotic systems after hours. He’s motivated by seeing launches he’s supported fly and by the prospect of his robots operating off-world.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Major GPA: 4.00/4.00, Overall GPA: 3.96/4.00, Associate of Science - AS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Major GPA: 4.00/4.00, Overall GPA: 3.96/4.00 at Montgomery CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Major GPA: 3.83/4.00, Overall GPA: 3.70/4.00, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Major GPA: 3.83/4.00, Overall GPA: 3.70/4.00 at University of MarylandMaster of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Major GPA: 3.68/4.00, Overall GPA: 3.60/4.00, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Major GPA: 3.68/4.00, Overall GPA: 3.60/4.00 at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (11)
kalman-filter9
dynamics9
trajectory-generation9
matlab9
robotics8
motion-planning8
slam8
kinematics7
java7
architecture7
codebase3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zlacey1234/SwarmathonWebsite
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
UMD-AMAV/Terpcopter4.0
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:7 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
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