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,
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Matthias Baudot has been working with LabVIEW for over ten years and is a worldwide leading expert in LabVIEW applications deployment and remote management. He is a LabVIEW Champion, presents regularly at NI Week, and has been awarded “World’s Fastest LabVIEW Programmer” in 2015.
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.
As a Product Manager for NI application software, John focuses on deeply understanding and streamlining product workflows from interactive control and measurement to full test automation, prioritizing key software investments in Product R&D through close collaboration with customers, partners, and NI’s business units.
John has spent over 15 years working in Semiconductor, Electronics, Aerospace, Defense and Transportation industries with specific emphasis on connecting the tool chains and data platforms from design through validation, characterization, and production test. John holds B.S. degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-bongaarts-b034846b/
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Pranay has been working with LabVIEW, TestStand, and PXI & bench top instrumentation for the last 6 years and is a LabVIEW Champion, CLA, CTA, and CPI. He is working with Soliton technologies as "Senior Lead - Technical Solutions" to help worldwide semiconductor-based customer engineering teams in building standardization frameworks and solutions for post-silicon validation and production testing. He loves solving complex problems through simple, scalable, and standardized software designs.
Pranay enjoys contributing and collaborating with the community to develop more productivity tools and exchange technical learnings.
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Leah is an Electronics Integration Engineer at Dyson in the UK, where she uses LabVIEW to develop the next generation of vacuum cleaners. She is interested in team software development practices and enjoys being able to collaborate with people from all over the world.
Outside of work she likes cooking vegetarian food and running up hills. Her current side project involves using LabVIEW to build a database of everything she ever bought at Lidl.
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Chris founded Wired-in Software in 2013 – a company that specialises in automated test systems and LabVIEW development. He has 25 years experience in developing LabVIEW solutions for manufacturing environments, for the Automotive, Biomedical, Defence and Scientific industries. He is a Certified LabVIEW Architect and recently became a LabVIEW Champion. Chris and Wired-in are passionate DQMH users, and Chris is the creator and host of the DQMH Podcast. He is passionate about family, friends, and the environment, and is still delusional about one day becoming a rock star.
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Technical director at Neosoft Technologies, I have more than 15 years of experience building test and measurement systems for various industries (aerospace, transportation, energy, ...). These systems are used as R&D tools and in production.
Certified LabVIEW Architect and Certified TestStand Architect, I also have proficient experience using VeriStand for HIL/MIL/SIL systems and FlexLogger for rapid prototyping.
Andrea Goulet is on a mission to operationalize empathy in the software industry.
For over a decade, Andrea has led a consultancy, Corgibytes, that specializes in software modernization and technical debt management. She's seen first-hand how effective empathy can be for tackling some of the toughest technical challenges. In 2022, Andrea co-founded a second company, Heartware, which helps organizations embed empathy into their culture, communication practices, and codebases.
Through her online courses, Andrea has taught 50,000+ students how skills like empathy can help software teams work together better and ship higher-quality code faster. She is a host of the Legacy Code Rocks podcast, co-founder of the online community Empathy in Tech, has been featured in prominent industry media, such as The First Round Review, and has received numerous awards for her leadership.
Andrea is a sought after speaker and trainer for organizations and events around the world. She is currently writing her first book, Empathy-Driven Software Development. Published through Pearson, it is expected to be available in 2023.
I am a Founder and Director of Grafitects, a software consulting company specializing in LabVIEW consulting, LabVIEW training & certification, and recruitment services based out of Bangalore, India.
I am a Certified LabVIEW Architect and LabVIEW Champion with 7 Years experience using LabVIEW. I have experience of providing consultancy services, and training more than 500 scientists, engineers, and few students across India and beyond with impact footprint to more than 100 companies worldwide. With 157 CLDs & 9 CLAs successfully trained and delivering success in the industry.
I am now more into leadership role and provide consulting services across the world primarily on LabVIEW, and exclusive LabVIEW professionals recruitment services for NI based companies in India.
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).
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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.
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22 year veteran of the global LabVIEW community, and ardent evangelist of SMoRES design principles, Norm Kirchner is currently a Chief Technical Support Engineer at NI specializing in RF & communications.
Over the years, Norm has contributed several community tools/frameworks/templates including: Extensible Session Framework (ESF), Remote Export Framework (REx), The OG Tree API, Top-Level Baseline Prime (TLB`), and always a crowd favorite LabVIEW Speak, to name a few.
Norm now focuses his efforts on leadership and mentorship within Technical Support Engineering (TSE) at NI, instilling his passion for customer success in automated test and measurement using NI products as well as teaching RF to anyone curious enough to ask, babies to bookkeepers.
Norm! (N1NJK) has a BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI and hails originally from Cleveland, OH.
List of 28 hobbies available upon request
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I am the founder and owner of Kubes AG. Kubes main business is the building of automated testsystems to ensures the quality of our customers products, mostly in LabVIEW and TestStand. My first contact with LabVIEW was in 2006 and since then I am looking for ways to equate software engineering in LabVIEW with other programming languages.
I am a Certified LabVIEW and TestStand Architect (CLA, CTA) as well as a Certified Professional Instructor (CPI).
I enjoy helping people to do better quality either in software engineering or in the manufacturing of their products.
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Paul Morris has been working with LabVIEW since 2004. As many do, he started out using it to automate experiments for his PhD (developing a fibre-optic hydrophone system, at University College, London). He joined Precision Acoustics in 2008, obtained his CLD in 2012 and became a Certified LabVIEW Architect in 2016. At Precision Acoustics, Paul is now the technical lead for a small team of developers with responsibility for all products requiring software control. These products range from calibration and beam characterisation systems for ultrasonic transducers and hydrophones to systems for the non-destructive testing of materials for use in industrial applications. Most of these systems combine motion control with data manipulation, specifically: acquisition, post processing and presentation. As well as developing a keen interest in software engineering practices and techniques/processes for team-based development, Paul’s recent focus has been on developing modular user interfaces and UI elements for the display of acquired data within applications.
Saravana has 5+ years of experience in Product Development and Product Management for Semiconductor test automation. Saravana is a Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA) and has good experience with the NI technology stack. He is also one of the key solution architects of Soliton’s Protocol Validation solution with a deep understanding of various digital interface protocols like MIPI I3C, RFFE, SPMI….
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/saravana-kumar-muthusamy
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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.
Akshata Nayak is a LabVIEW developer working in ARAV Systems as Senior System Engineer.
I fell in love with LabVIEW since I was a Student 23 year ago, LabVIEW allowed me to draw my toughts, eventually I became 'The LabVIEW Teacher', then I spent 13 year doing LabVIEW for a research Institute, doing Scientific setups, Industrial projects, I had a lot of fun, eventually I worked as a Software Contractor for Delacor, currently I'm running PantherLAB, a Software development and software consultancy Business in México, every day I'm doing what I love, 'solving problems with LabVIEW'.
Neil is LabVIEW Champion who has been building things in LabVIEW since 2004.
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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!
As a Product Manager at NI, Shauna is responsible for ensuring that engineers are able to test and validate products reliably and efficiently. She has a M. Sc. in Computer Engineering and a B. Sc. Co-op in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta. She is passionate about making it easier for engineers to bring their ideas from concept to reality.
Before joining the TestStand team, Shauna worked in the Academic space and led the design and development of Multisim and Multisim Live. She has helped more than 1 million people around the world understand how their electrons flow.
In her spare time, you will find Shauna playing in the mountains, gardening, and mentoring young engineers and scientists to help them bring their ideas to the market.
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.
Eric Reffett has worked at NI for 23 years in multiple roles including Applications Engineering, Software Development, Software Marketing, Engineering Management and Software Planning. In his current role as a Software Planner, Eric is responsible for the product roadmap for LabVIEW. Eric has met with hundreds of NI's customers during his career at NI and he uses their feedback to improve the products NI creates. Before NI, Eric worked at Motorola developing satellite communication systems for worldwide radio systems.
Eric holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and an MBA and MIS degree from Washington University. He enjoys playing games with his kids, planning his next Disney vacation, and learning to play the Ukulele from his wife.
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.
Technical and Project Lead @ Soliton Technologies,
Dmitry Sagatelyan is a hands-on Software Architect with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. He switched to using LabVIEW in 1998 and is currently a full-time LabVIEW Consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dmitry is a Certified LabVIEW Architect, a LabVIEW Champion and a regular presenter at NI Week and CLA/GLA Summits.
Dmitry is passionate about bringing Contemporary Software Engineering Methods and Practices to the LabVIEW Community. His main areas of interest are Actor Programming and Using Agile Software Design Principles (a superset of SOLID Principles) for developing lean and scalable LabVIEW architectures and code.
Founder of Ngene | CLA | Making LabVIEW Smarter and Faster.
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.
I am certified LabVIEW Architect CLA & Embedded Developer CLED , CEO of AMS Technology Solutions , i am enthusiastic in TestStand as developer , i Have been 10 Years experience in LabVIEW development and Automation processes , made system over-world
I am computer engineer as well and i have master degree in engineering .
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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.
Allen C Smith has been using the NI platform to solve complex engineering challenges for over 29 years. In that time, he has been a member of the NI Partner Program, worked for Partners, and served as a Systems Engineer with National Instruments. While at NI, he developed the software tool support and official training course for the Actor Framework. He is once again a member of the Partner Program, offering services as a consulting software architect and developer.
He remains an AF evangelist and active member of the AF community.
Allen is a Certified LabVIEW Architect, Certified Embedded Developer, and LabVIEW Champion.
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.
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Ethan Stern is a CLA and Manager at Composed Systems. With an education in Mechanical Engineering and a cynical attitude, he begrudgingly entered the workforce about 20 years ago, forming an immediate and lasting fascination with graphical programming in LabVIEW. He got the NI certs, taught the LV classes, and now co-manages Composed Systems, a Massachusetts-based NI Alliance Partner, focusing on excellence in all aspects of software design.
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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).
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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.
I'm a Test Systems Engineer that specialises in LabVIEW and the NI ecosystem. I've been a CLA since 2017. I also enjoy using C#, Python, and SQL. I'm an amateur chess player.
Ask me what I do for a living and I'll tell you I turn coffee into LabVIEW code. I have been using LabVIEW for the last 26 years and it's been the cornerstone of my career. I appreciate LabVIEW because I can visualise my programming. Plus it's fun to use.
Currently working for Wired-in Software in Melbourne, Australia, a regular user of the DQMH framework and a CLD, but aspiring to be CLA & CTD in the near future.
George is a UK-based consultant to companies in the Semiconductor and Electronics test industry through his company, Thetic Engineering Ltd. He worked at NI for 14 years, passionate about PXI technology and TestStand. LabVIEW, not so much. He truly believes that engineers are capable of solving anything, but maybe, sometimes, they shouldn't.
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I am a Ph.D. candidate in physics from Turkey. My main interest area is quantum information science and my current thesis subject is about developing microwave-optical converters for quantum computers. I enjoy coding with LabVIEW as it is my primary programming language to run experiments in our lab and do much more. I believe that a modernized LabVIEW can find its place among many other communities with a large extent of those in eastern countries.
