Resume

Flight software engineer for NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), targeted for lunar delivery in late 2027. Developed new cFS applications and modified flight-heritage applications for onboard commanding, telemetry, and power-system interfaces. Led development and maintenance of the rover's continuous integration system in Atlassian Bamboo. This work included build scripts, build agents, and migration to a Docker-based environment used by the flight, ground, and simulation teams. Collaborated with the Ground Data System team on communications and command-and-telemetry interface control documents.

Flight software engineer contributing to software architecture, testing infrastructure, and cFS application development.

Contributed to the software architecture for autonomous lunar operations and helped standardize interface control documents.

Software lead on a successor R&D project applying the System-Wide Safety backend architecture to conventional air traffic operations. Sets technical direction and coordinates schedules for two engineers. The service ingests live FAA SWIM and AADC data feeds, periodic CIFP and NASR updates, and NOAA METARs. It integrates safety metrics and includes a visualization frontend built on OpenMCT and CesiumJS.

Software lead on an R&D project developing tools to demonstrate and explore safety technologies for unmanned airspace management. Set technical direction and schedule for teams ranging from one to four engineers over the life of the project, and mentored five interns, who contributed to the main codebase. Responsible for the backend architecture in Flask, PostgreSQL, and SQLAlchemy, integrating safety metrics developed by NASA researchers. Worked with those researchers to develop metrics in their preferred language, translated the algorithms to C++, and integrated the implementation into a unified service providing safety advisories to sUAS operators.

As an intern, extended the Generic Software Architecture for Prognostics (GSAP) with a REST API that exposed its prognostics capabilities as an online service. First author of the Prognostics As-a-Service paper.

Generic Software Architecture for Prognostics

Contributed to development of a generic software architecture for prognostics. Improved codebase reliability by adopting C++11 features, expanding unit-test coverage, automating builds and tests, and establishing continuous integration.

X-Plane Connect

Developed extensions to the X-Plane data protocol and implemented a cross-platform UDP network service as an X-Plane plugin. Designed reference client implementations in C, Java, MATLAB, and Python, with a comprehensive test suite in every client language to verify both client and server behavior. Refactored a monolithic procedural code base into modular, object-oriented C++, and provided end-user support. One of the most popular repositories in the NASA GitHub organization, and used by several universities as part of their curriculum.

Compound Eye

Worked with a large group of interns and engineers on a new optical motion tracking sensor. Developed parallel simulation software to characterize the sensor's optical properties. Ran high-resolution optical simulations on NASA's Pleiades supercomputer, analyzed experimental and simulated data, and helped design a MySQL schema for the results.

Auto-tracking Antenna

Developed a two-axis proportional control system to track an aircraft in flight. Integrated data acquisition from a UAV autopilot with closed-loop control for reliable antenna positioning. Developed a messaging protocol to transmit data between a desktop computer and an Arduino motor controller.