Sterling Peet is a Research Scientist at Georgia Tech specializing in embedded systems, flight software, and reliable software architecture for space applications. He is a member of the Georgia Tech research community, contributing to spacecraft development, HPC testbed infrastructure, and flight software tooling across a wide range of missions and platforms.

His current work focuses on the Green Propellant Dual Mode (GPDM) mission, a NASA Marshall Space Flight Center-sponsored technology demonstration flying a 6U CubeSat using the green monopropellant AF-M315E (ASCENT) to power both high-thrust chemical and high-efficiency electric thrusters for the first time. At Georgia Tech's Space Systems Design Lab (SSDL), he serves as Flight Software Lead, managing software tasking, priorities, and timelines for the GPDM flight software.

Previously, Sterling served as Flight Software Technical Lead for the Lunar Flashlight mission, designing development processes, building operations support tooling, and architecting a Command Sequence Linter to validate flight commands before uplink. He also designed and built the Georgia Tech Ground Station Network, a multi-site autonomous ground station system capable of lights-out satellite pass scheduling, data recording, and command uplink. He provides ongoing technical mentorship to 25–50 graduate and undergraduate students working on flight hardware projects.

His technical expertise spans flight software frameworks (F Prime, core Flight System), embedded Linux, C/C++, Python, RF communications, and HPC cluster administration.