Dave Varvell

Dave Varvell began their work experience in 1980 as a Student Engineer at Lockheed Space Systems, where they performed stability analysis on control systems and created a simulation of a spacecraft. Dave then worked as a Student Engineer at Ford Aerospace in 1981. In 1982, they joined Integrated Systems as a Product Architect, where they authored SystemBuild, a system-modeling tool, and created the analyzer and simulator for it. From 1999 to 2002, Dave worked at Wind River as a Senior Member of Technical Staff, where they retargeted the OSEK RTOS kernel to the Mitsubishi M32R processor and implemented the protocol stack for the automotive market. At National Instruments, they served as a Principal Architect from 2003 to 2014 and was responsible for reworking the Xmath lexer/parser, refactoring C++ classes, and restructuring Xmath into a pure IPC server architecture. Since 2015, Dave has been working at Millennium Engineering and Integration as a Realtime Software Engineer, where they implemented error detection and correction systems and a flash file system for the NASA Ames’ BioSentinel satellite.

Dave Varvell attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo from 1978 to 1982, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.