Hong Kong city at night

Real-Time Software Engineer — St. Louis, MO

I build
things that
work.

Real-time systems engineer at Boeing. I build flight software, serverless cloud pipelines, and side projects. Open to interesting problems.

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Building software
that has to work.

I’m a real-time systems engineer at Boeing, where I build and maintain flight software that runs on active airframes. My work spans performance-critical embedded systems in Ada and C++ to serverless cloud pipelines in Python and AWS. I care about the craft — writing code that is correct, fast, and maintainable under pressure.

C++AdaPythonAWSROSReal-Time Systems
Boeing·Texas A&M·Bilingual (PT / EN)
Peyton Smith in Hong Kong

Work.

Boeing
Real-Time Software Engineer
Jun 2024 – Present
Berkley, MO
  • Developed, tested, and maintained real-time multi-process flight software features in Python, Ada, and C++ within an Agile environment.
  • Built an internal data conversion tool that reduced an 80-hour regression process to a single click, cutting CI/CD errors by 95%.
CWC Global
Part-Time Contract Developer
Oct 2024 – Present
Remote
  • Designed an AWS serverless pipeline (S3, Lambda, Python, OpenAI) for automated call transcription and LLM-based grading.
  • Delivered a 20× expansion in grading capacity and saved 8 managerial hours per week.
Lockheed Martin
Sensor Fusion Engineering Intern
May – Aug 2023
Fort Worth, TX
  • Built a C# .NET application modeling Clean Software Architecture for flight library components.
  • Trained in sensor fusion algorithms including Kalman Filter and TDOA for real-time systems.
education
Texas A&M University
B.S. Computer Engineering  ·  2020 – 2024
Study abroad at SUTD, Singapore
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Selected work.

mobile app
BOUND

Social platform for sharing books, quotes, and reviews. Built mobile-first with offline sync and a clean UI.

React NativeTypeScriptExpoSQLRedux
robotics
Lidar SLAM

Real-time environment tracking and mapping using Kalman Filter algorithms to identify and follow state.

PythonROSKalman FilterSLAM
machine learning
Sentiment Analysis

Tweet sentiment classification using a Hidden Markov Model with Viterbi decoding.

PythonHMMViterbi
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Hong Kong skyline at night — ICC Tower

Hong Kong
at Night.

ICC Tower  ·  Victoria Harbour  ·  2024

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On software
& craft.

coming soon
Real-time systems in Python: what nobody tells you
6 min read
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What building flight software taught me about clean code
8 min read
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