Eric Coughlin

Integration Software Specialist(Software Engineer I)

Rubin Observatory

AURA

Biography

Eric Coughlin is a software engineer working for the LSST project under the affiliation of AURA. He has experience writing python code that deals with hardware that communicates over serial/usb connections as well as TCP/IP connections. As well as experience with writing Python Flask web applications.

Interests
  • Control Software
  • Computer Science
  • Python
Education

  • BA in Computer Science & History, 2018

    Luther College

Vocational Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Integration Software Specialist (Software Engineer I)
AURA/Rubin
July 2018 – Present Tucson, AZ -> La Serena, Chile

Featured Publications

January, 2017 Classical and Quantum Gravity
Limiting the effects of earthquakes on gravitational-wave interferometers

Recent Posts

New Site
Happy Halloween! I have decided to migrate my website to a new build system and theme. I am now using a static site generator called Hugo to build this website.
Last updated on Oct 1, 2023 1 min read News

Projects

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All Podcast Software
Last updated on Oct 1, 2023
Electrometer CSC

Software to control a Keithley electrometer.
Last updated on Oct 1, 2023
CBP CSC

Software to control a Collimated Beam Projector.
Last updated on Oct 1, 2023
TunableLaser CSC

Software to control a tunable laser.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2019
APC Course Proposal

For Luther College Computer Science senior project.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2019
Fitb
Fitb

An aftershow to QED.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2019
QED
QED

A podcast that friends and I created in college

Programming Skills

Python

I have written several projects in python using both python 2.7 and 3.4-3.7.

C++

I have written several small programs as part of my undergraduate education.

Flask

I have written several projects using the micro-framework Flask.