I build software that has to work under real contraints: avionics + ground systems for rocketry, and computer-vision pipelines fast enough to actually be useful.
Arturo Lopez Chavez — UW Informatics '27, Seattle. Avionics Project Lead at SARP and undergraduate researcher at Parsons Lab. Previously engineering intern at Fluke Corporation.
Stack
Python · C++ · Java · JavaScript · React · FastAPI · PyTorch · OpenCV · NumPy · Docker · Git · GitHub Actions · Linux
Some of the things I've built
Zenith — full-stack exoplanet visibility planner; the hard part is getting astronomy coordinate/time math and the UI to agree
H.A.D.E.S — real-time drone detection and tracking on a Raspberry Pi; keeping YOLOv8 + OpenCV inference latency low enough for live use
gse_communication_controller — Raspberry Pi comms controller for SARP ground support equipment; robustness over elegance, serial/network IO in Python, full stack app using Django + React for Mission Control
atom-fitter — Python proof of concept for 2D/3D atom position fitting for quantum computing hardware; stable optimization on noisy experimental data
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English / Español · lopez115@uw.edu