Nate Gay

What I’m here for

I’m at SmallSat 2026 presenting F Prime to Flight Faster — hardware-in-the-loop continuous integration for CubeSat development, with Saidi Adams and Michael Pham.

Every commit to the PROVES flight software is deployed to and exercised on a real engineering satellite before it can merge. Over the past year that’s 1,917 commits gated on hardware, 132 hours of hardware test runtime, and an 18-minute median commit-to-verdict. All the hardware and software is open source.

Read the poster →

Elsewhere

I lead the flight software team at the Texas State Space Lab, a contributor to PROVES — the Open Source Space Foundation’s open-source CubeSat program — and build distributed platforms on Kubernetes at WP Engine. More on the about page, or the older writing.