Thomas Rondeau
Principal Director at Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Malsbury is a seasoned RF, DSP and FPGA engineering leader with 16 years of experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CEO of AnySignal in the Los Angeles area. He led a 13‑engineer team at SpaceX that built versatile Xilinx RFSoC platforms and SDR stacks deployed across Falcon, Dragon, Starship and satellite systems. Equally comfortable shipping product and tooling, he has product management experience from Ettus Research and is an active contributor to GNU Radio projects—working on build/CI improvements for PyBOMBS and core signal-processing refinements. He also channels his aerospace passion into entrepreneurship as founder of West Coast Aerosport, combining aerobatic flight instruction with innovative training experiences. With a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MS in Project Management in progress, he pairs deep technical craft with operational and go‑to‑market instincts.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (15)
bash10
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
gnuradio10
refactor10
signal-processing10
computer-engineering9
automation9
automations9
build-system9
python8
software-defined-radio6
wireless5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gnuradio/pybombs
Jun 2013 - Jun 2015
PyBOMBS (Python Build Overlay Managed Bundle System) is the GNU Radio install management system for resolving dependencies and pulling in out-of-tree projects.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 2 years
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the build and deployment aspects of the PyBOMBS project. This is evidenced by their modifications to the `jenkins.sh` script, suggesting involvement in Continuous Integration and related automation processes. They also updated the build process and tarball extraction, improving project maintainability. Their work includes setting up the build environment and ensuring the correct installation of necessary packages for successful builds.
management-systemdependenciespythonsoftware-defined-radiobundle
gnuradio/gnuradio
Dec 2014 - May 2015
GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 150 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's commits are related to merging and updating changes to the GNU Radio software radio ecosystem. The changes involve updating FEC encoder/decoder loggers to use the set function instead of add for appenders, and fixes for the MPSK SNR estimators. The user's contributions focus on refactoring and improving core functional blocks within the signal processing ecosystem. The user implemented some minor updates to the signal processing components.
pythonwirelessc-plus-pluscybersecuritycommunications
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