Quentin "Q" Alldredge goes by "Q" and welcomes anyone to use that nickname. He goes by that nickname for both the Star Trek and James Bond references. Q received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University in 2007. His first job out of school was with ATK (now Northrop Grumman) in Northern Utah where the Space Shuttle rocket boosters were made. They sent him to all of the NI training which he has since turned into his career. Later, he joined the US Air Force as a civilian. While there he earned his CLA certification and led his team to become one of the first LabVIEW Centers of Excellence. He worked on many projects including the A-10 aircraft developing ground support testing equipment. In 2018, Q was inducted into the LabVIEW Champions and loves to share his love of the G language. Q is currently a board member for GCentral, to promote community G programming efforts; an admin for the LabVIEW Wiki (labviewwiki.org); and works for Testeract,
An experienced software professional, Michał has spent the past decade refining his expertise in the NI platform, particularly in the domain of test systems. His specialization lies in efficiently developing high-quality software by utilizing TestStand alongside LabVIEW modules. Active in the NI community forum under the alias Bienieck, Michał generously shares his insights and experiences. Additionally, he regularly participates as a speaker at events such as LabVIEW Developer Days, the LabVIEW Programmers' Championship (when there was such a thing), GLA Summit, and user group meetings. Michał holds certifications as a LabVIEW/TestStand architect (CLA/CTA) and as a certified professional instructor (CPI).
I'm a LabVIEW architect and champion with 10 years of LabVIEW experience.
I tend to specialize in utilizing the NI ecosystem in new and creative ways to elevate workflows.
This ranges from GPU acceleration via G²CPU, using FPGA's for accelerated computing, Actors in TestStand to using LabVIEW for custom Android and IOS applications.
My goal is to share these ideas in order to stimulate development, incite out-of-the-box thinking and keep the LabVIEW ecosystem growing.
I like playing with all the LabVIEW features DNatt says to avoid which hopefully makes me chaotic good. I like making tooling for developers, poking at the darker corners of LabVIEW (Channels, XNodes, VIMs) and generating the eventual bug reports, and experimenting with architecture and API design in LabVIEW.
Currently work at NI in the support organization providing assistance on cases for LabVIEW, TestStand, RIO, RT, Web, and a smattering of other products.
Christian Butcher works as a research technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. At work, he is focused on integrating and automating hardware and software systems to provide a smooth workflow for various fluid mechanics experiments.
Christian is a LabVIEW Champion and one of the GLA Summit Organizers, and has presented at several NI Week conferences and GDevCon events, most recently regarding CI/CD with Docker for LabVIEW PPLs.
His recent out-of-office programming has been mostly for this GLA Summit website - so for all the problems, bugs and slow TTFBs, he apologises! (If you'd like to join in next year - get in touch!)
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Sumedha is on a mission to help people live more mindfully and be their best versions daily. She is the founder of a tech startup Quimby, backed by the leading accelerator Techstars. She is also a mindfulness coach for leaders and a public speaker specializing on the topics of emotional intelligence, mindfulness and mental health. Sumedha has over 10,000 hours of mindfulness training and 14+ years of experience building software products, including working in the LabVIEW team at NI for 10 years. You can learn more about Sumedha at https://www.sumedhaganjoo.com/.
Sriram Gopalan, serving as the R&D Lead at Valeo, has been proficient in LabVIEW development since 2011. With a rich background in Automotive, Industrial Automation, and Cloud computing, he blends academic knowledge with industrial expertise. His collaboration spans across NI Service partner [Academic] and NI Alliance Partners [Industry]. He holds certifications as a Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA) and a Certified TestStand Architect (CTA).
My professional interest lies in software engineering in small teams, with a focus on process and workflow standardisation and automation.
I have been creating software for a living for more than two decades, delivering real-world software projects successfully by collaborating closely with my customers. I have been working with NI's technology stack since 2007.
Around 2015/2016, I founded Hampel Software Engineering (HSE), a leading firm in the NI ecosystem in the fields of process and workflow standardisation and automation. At HSE, we work with teams of developers all around the world to increase the quality of their software through improved development processes. Hampel Software Engineering is the first NI Center of Excellence in Germany, a member of the NI Partner Program and a DQMH® Trusted Advisor.
I am a Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA), a Certified Professional Instructor (CPI) and LabVIEW Champion and an over-all avid LabVIEW user. I enjoy consulting, coaching and generally speaking with or in front of people.
I am a member of the board at the DQMH® Consortium, a partner at DSH Workshops, a member of the GDevCon Alliance and a founding member of the Alliance of LabVIEW Architects. I'm also the founder/organizer of the award-winning Würzburg LabVIEW User Group (bit.ly/WUELUG), and together with my colleague Ioan I run the North of Britain LabVIEW User Group (bit.ly/NOBLUG).
Just a guy who loves LabVIEW. Works at ARAV Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Olivier is the founder and owner of Wovalab, a company that helps people getting the most from LabVIEW. He also is a member of the DQMH® Consortium board that ensures that the DQMH® framework is maintained and continues to evolve.
He started working with LabVIEW™ in the late ’90s. He loves helping teams to design and produce well-architectured LabVIEW™ applications using the best development practices.
He's developed Antidoc, an open-source project, that provides an automated code documentation generator for your LabVIEW projects.
Seasoned product strategist with 20+ years driving high-tech B2B applications and a passion for the role of software in high-technology engineering applications.
My extensive field experience with customers and accounts fuels my ability to guide internal roadmaps and investments for maximum impact.
I’m excited to combine my software experience with the automotive industry, and to play a role in shaping the future of test and measurement.
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Hello, I'm Tom, a senior software engineer at JKI. I've been using LabVIEW for over a decade now and every day is a learning day, at this GLA Summit I'm excited to learn from y'all, and in turn share some of the neat things I've learnt in recent years about LabVIEW and software engineering in general.
An electronic engineer and CLA who enjoys building things and loves the chance to collaborate, share his knowledge and learn something new.
Varaprasath MOHAN is currently working in Valeo India leading the department of tools, He is having 11+ Years expertise in the field of Architecting Test Automation Framework, As a CLA, CTA, LabVIEW Champion & Valeo Expert he has established global organizational level test automation framework using LabVIEW & TestStand.
Darren Nattinger (DNatt) is a CLA who has worked at NI for over 25 years. He spent most of that time in LabVIEW R&D, thinking of and implementing editor features to delight LabVIEW programmers, but he is currently a Chief Techical Support Engineer, helping build up LabVIEW expertise in the NI tech support department. Darren is the 7-time undefeated (now retired) World's Fastest LabVIEW Programmer, and was the primary developer for LabVIEW features such as Quick Drop and the VI Analyzer Toolkit. His favorite LabVIEW framework is DQMH. Darren has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin, and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech.
loves automation, interfacing with hardware, and writing software to solve challenging real-world problems. Jason has been involved in writing LabVIEW and TestStand code since 2016 and has written software for industrial robotics, automation, manufacturing, and test in a wide variety of industries. Jason enjoys 3D modeling and printing, reading, and playing volleyball whenever he can.
Neil is LabVIEW Champion who has been building things in LabVIEW since 2004.
Michał (aka Mike) is a test environment architect working at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. There, he takes care of the fleet of Hardware in the Loop simulators for wind turbines. Besides the technical role, he is also an advocate of good engineering practice coaching developers in writing testable code and using conventional commits and semantic versioning.
Mike's adventure with LabVIEW started in 2009 in academia, where he was developing controllers for excimer lasers and incubators of organic crystals. Before settling in the wind industry he worked in plenty of green-energy projects together with CCM-EE consultancy.
He is a CLD, active member of ADVANCED LABVIEW USER GROUP DENMARK, and presenter from the first VI week. Mike lives in Denmark, plays a hang drum, and can bake the yummiest chocolate cake ever!
Kamalakannan Rajan serves as the R&D Lead at Valeo, where he plays a pivotal role in bolstering the Global Camera Acquisition system and Hardware-in-Loop Architectures. With extensive experience in the automotive industry, he specializes in in-vehicle testing tools, ADAS validation tools, and has a strong command of LabVIEW, TestStand, and FPGA-based developments since 2010, starting from LabVIEW 2009 version. He has collaborated closely with academic institutions, mentoring students, and fostering partnerships with NI alliance partners. With over 11 years of industrial expertise, he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his role.
Ederson Ramalho has been programming in LabVIEW since 2009. He has an extensive knowledge in instruments communication, data acquisition and machines automation. He became CLA in 2019, CPI in 2020 and a LabVIEW Champion 🏆 in 2023.
I am a test systems engineer who loves LabVIEW and has been a Certified LabVIEW Architect for two years. I discovered LabVIEW during my undergraduate degree and have not stopped using it since! After years of learning and benefiting form the great LabVIEW community it is time for me to contribute with my presentation
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I am a Test System Engineer who has been using LabVIEW since 2005. I am a LabVIEW Champion with a CLA. Most of my experience is developing test systems for military and aerospace industries.
With a degree in Computer Engineering, Sam has spent his 20-year career studying and architecting automated test frameworks. Having trained and mentored hundreds of test and measurement engineers, Sam has a passion for helping others grow. Sam prides himself in being a thought leader in the test and measurement community and is the most recognized author on TestStand forums. He helped architect and write the Certified TestStand Developer exam for NI. In 2015, Sam co-founded Testeract, with a mission to progress the automated test industry. He currently serves as its President. Sam is a LabVIEW Champion, Certified LabVIEW Architect, Certified TestStand Architect, and a Certified Professional Instructor.
Hi, I’m Peter Scarfe, creator of Workers for LabVIEW and a LabVIEW Champion. I’ve been developing with LabVIEW for over 16 years, applying it across both academia and industry to build automation and data acquisition systems.
To solve recurring architectural challenges, I created Workers for LabVIEW, a framework that blends the simplicity of NI QMH development style with the power of LVOOP. It provides structure, tooling, and API abstractions to help developers focus on solutions, not fighting architectural complexity.
With Workers for LabVIEW, my goal is to empower LabVIEW developers with tools that reduce technical debt and make large-scale development easier, faster, and more sustainable.
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Hunter is a staff software engineer at JKI who's been using LabVIEW for over 17 years. Hunter got his start in LabVIEW at NI as an applications engineer and K-12 engineering specialist working with myDAQ, LEGO, FIRST and and founded the youtube channel WaterlooLabs. Hunter spent 7 years as a software engineer for SpaceX working on everything from rocket engine test stands, to user interfaces for astronauts. Now at JKI, Hunter works with a huge variety of customers in aerospace, biomedical, and semiconductor to solve hard problems with LabVIEW. Hunter is passionate about clean code, UX design, good documentation, and well automated devOps.
My name is Jesper Kjær Sørensen and I am a Systems Engineer at GPower. I am a Certified LabVIEW and Teststand Developer and a general Pythonista. I have been programming in LabVIEW since 2006, in Python since about 2012, and TestStand since 2018. At GPower I have worked with many exciting projects, especially measuring Wind Turbine Blade Dynamics. My passion is making SOLID code and using SOLID programming principles, so I am continually working on improving myself. I have a general focus on combining the best parts from each of the languages to automate as many manual processes as possible.
I am also a trained Scrum Master in SAFe 5 and the Product Owner on GPower Expression Parser for LabVIEW, our expression evaluation toolkit for faster computations.
Historically, I have worked in several industries before GPower, where the most interesting was certifying, developing, and testing methanol-based high-temperature fuel cells while I was at Serenergy, now Advent Technology. I worked with the development of custom fuel cell stack test stations for about 3 years. Then I worked with CE certification and maritime approval of fuel cells, but over time I learned that developing applications and making code was my true passion and I decided to find new challenges at GPower.
I currently live in Denmark on a farm with my wife and daughter and about 40 Holstein cows and heifers. I am spending my spare time on photography and going on scouting trips with my daughter to unwind from the digital life.
Thyagu Soundar, a distinguished engineer with over a decade of experience in Automotive and Aerospace industries. Armed with NI CLD Certification, Thyagu brings unparalleled expertise in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) development for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), as well as Automated Test Equipment (ATE) development for safety critical functions in Aerospace. With a proven track record of piloting and delivering successful projects worldwide.
Sreejith is a Systems Architect and is passionate about Software Engineering best practices, CI, UML and Test Automation.
He is a LabVIEW Champion, Certified LabVIEW Architect and Certified TestStand Architect. He co-hosts the GLA Summit and is a regular presenter and participant at NI Week, NI Days, user groups and CLA summits.
I am a LabVIEW and TestStand developer managing a small consultancy business as an NI Alliance Partner on the Finnish west coast. Through my career I have previously been working in various roles both with NI and at an Alliance Partner in Stockholm. I spend a lot of time exploring the wider industry to understand and learn principles and practices which may be leveraged also in the world of LabVIEW. I am also the author of the LUnit Unit Test Framework and LMock mocking toolkit.
Karthik Abiram is a Solutions Architect at Soliton Technologies and a LabVIEW user since 2012. He is a LabVIEW Champion, Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA) and a Certified TestStand Architect (CTA) with experience in architecting Test Automation and GUI Frameworks. He is a strong believer of automating routine tasks and passionate about improving the developer experience (DX).
Sam Taggart is a Certified LabVIEW Architect and LabVIEW Champion with over a dozen years of experience designing, building, and programming test systems. He cut his teeth running a lab in the Science and Technology Center at Westinghouse Electric Company, leading a team that designed various testing and monitoring systems for nuclear power plants. He now owns SAS Workshops, a consulting company focused on teaching, mentoring, and project work. He also hosts The LabVIEW Experiment podcast.
Steve is a managing partner at SSDC, designing hardware and software solutions with customers in many different fields. He is the co-author of "A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW" and the author of "Random Ramblings on LabVIEW Design". Steve is a Certified LabVIEW Architect and LabVIEW Champion.
