# Madison Gleydura (@fiducial.systems)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/fiducial.systems
Website: https://codeberg.org/DeepSpace

## About

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## Experience

- **Electrical Engineering Intern at Psionic, Inc.** (2024 – 2024)
  Automate characterization and testing of lidar telescopes, receivers, and other electro-optical devices. Write NI-VISA/SCPI command line interfaces for several optics test equipment devices for test automation.
- **Electrical Engineering Intern at Psionic, Inc.** (2023 – 2023)
  Electro-optical engineering navigation doppler lidar systems for aerospace. Design a circuit board for automating testing procedures for a lidar system on an optical breadboard using Altium Designer.
- **Intern at Miles Space** (2018 – 2023)
  Intern on a NASA CubeQuest Challenge winning team as a secondary payload aboard Artemis I. CAD modeling & Finite Element Analysis
- **Peer Mentor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University** (2022 – 2024)
  Assist students in getting started with research. Prepare and host student research symposiums.
- **Graduate Teaching Assistant at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University** (2023 – 2026)
  Lab instructor or Physics III laboratory for physics majors. Revise laboratory curriculum and repair lab equipment.
- **Lead Technology Developer at Destination SPACE Inc.** (2017 – 2026)
  Design and manufacture open source in-situ sensor platforms for high school climate and weather camps over the course of five design cycles between 2020 and 2025. Skills acquired include digital circuit design, surface mount soldering, test
  engineering, and design for manufacturing over the course of these design cycles. Mentor undergraduate capstone teams at UNC Asheville and Western Carolina University. Create climate, remote sensing, and weather instruction and curriculum for students

## Education

- **Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College** — AS, Science (2014 – 2018)
- **Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University** — MS, Engineering Physics (2023 – 2026)
- **Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University** — BS, Engineering Physics (2018 – 2023)

## Skills

- Digital Circuit Design
- RF
- Arduino
- Linux
- KiCad
- CANBus
- I2C
- Ethernet
- SPI
- UART
- USB
- LTspice
- PSpice for TI
- QSPICE
- Soldering
- LaTeX
- Git
- GrADS
- NI-VISA
- Altium Designer
- FreeCAD
- Python
- MATLAB
- C
- C++
- Zephyr
- STM32

## Projects

- **Awohali** — https://codeberg.org/Fiducial-Systems/Awohali
  Thesis: Developing a Multi-Band GNSS Remote Sensing Station to Measure Precipitable Water Vapor for Flash Flood Nowcasting.

◦ Developed a custom embedded GNSS station that can be integrated into a remote sensing network
◦ Designed custom multi-band GNSS receiver and LTE-M M.2 cards
◦ Implement real-time data processing algorithm to derive precipitable water vapor measurements on-device
◦ Evaluate system performance and data accuracy relative to geodetic-grade equipment
- **Pico-torQuer** — https://gitlab.com/deepspace-engineering/pico-torquer
  ◦ B-dot and PID control system for de-tumbling and nadir-pointing a 1P PocketQube
◦ Account for a variety of environmental torque disturbance sources
◦ PCB-embedded magnetorquer coils

## Publications

- Developing a Multi-Band GNSS Remote Sensing Station To Measure Precipitable Water Vapor for Flash Flood Nowcasting (https://commons.erau.edu/edt/974/)
-  Developing Low-Cost GNSS Remote Sensing Hardware to Measure Precipitable Water Vapor for Flash Flood Nowcasting in Southern Appalachia — Student Research Symposium (https://commons.erau.edu/db-srs/2025/poster-session/77/)
- Pico-torQuer: Magnetorquer-only Attitude Control for a 1P PocketQube using PCB-Embedded Coils — Discovery Day (https://commons.erau.edu/discovery-day/db-discovery-day-2023/poster-session-2/4/)

## Other profiles

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madison-gleydura/
- codeberg: https://codeberg.org/DeepSpace
- github: https://github.com/DeepSpace00
- orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3361-0879