Jaron Cyna

Jaron Cyna

Junior @ Queen's University • Engineering Physics / Electrical Engineering

Building flight-ready hardware. Found between KiCad, FPGAs, and the CubeSat design bay.

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Current Roles & Highlights
Co-Chief Technical Officer
Queen's Space Engineering Team (CubeSat)

Directing the technical architecture of a 3U CubeSat across 9+ subteams. Actively preparing the mission for an orbital launch window with two flatsats planned this year.

Research Assistant (USSRF Grant)
SNO+ Collaboration (SNOLAB)

Recovered 5+ months of unviable experimental neutrino detector data by developing an automated calibration pipeline that leveraged a Polonium-210 localized standard candle to dynamically correct shifting optical detector properties.

Former Firmware Lead
Queen's Space Engineering Team (Rover Branch)

Engineered STM32 & FreeRTOS firmware and ROS 2 motor controller communication for 5+ payload actuators, securing a mission score of 88/100 at the 2026 International University Rover Challenge.

Technical Skills
Digital Logic & Compute:
FPGA SystemVerilog Verilog VHDL SoC RISC-V Digital Logic
Firmware & Embedded:
C / C++ STM32 FreeRTOS ROS 2 CAN Bus SPI / I2C / UART Motor Control (FOC)
Hardware & Instruments:
KiCad / Altium PCB Design Power Electronics Oscilloscopes Logic Analyzers DMM / Soldering Circuit Analysis
Software & Tools:
Python MATLAB / Simulink Linux (Ubuntu / Bash) Git / GitHub Signal Processing CubeSat Systems Robotics Actuators

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