Kevin S. Patel

Embedded Software Engineer @Axiom Space

I support the development of world\'s first Commerical Space Station • Responsible Engineer overall all software for Telemetry Tracking & Command (TT & C) communication system to be used on the Axiom Visiting Vehicle during Rendezvous Proximity Operations, and Capture (RPOC) • Wrote & Reviewed, Refined requirements for the communication system. • Designed and documented the software and hardware components in UML (including use case diagrams, Activity diagrams, etc) • Lifecycle planning for entire communication System till berth including hardware/software development, testing, and integration • Designed the system to have two strings of independent operation (Single Fault tolerant) with the ability for both strings to fail-safe • Integrated Communication Systems with other systems on the vehicle • Wrote the application, embedded Flight Software and test software for Radios, microcontrollers (Antenna Router Board for Transmit/ Active Receive Antennas), and Crypto Modules • Managed NRE/RE contractors for the development of hardware/software, and system engineering