Experience

Pachama
• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2021 - Present


SpaceX

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Vehicle Software Automation Engineer

  • Dec 2020 - Sep 2021

  Led flight operations for new satellite bus platform. Hired and trained a team of 5+ new operators and organized early mission support schedule to ensure mission success and stability. Led projects to optimize future vehicle automation and operations through bringing up Docker/Flask based toolchains, Python/Jinja/Bazel data review frameworks, , and repurposing Starship operations tools to support satellite integration. Spearheaded efforts to design automated control and anomaly detection software by organizing requirements capturing, implementation, and review efforts with avionics hardware design and flight software teams. Show less

• Avionics Software Engineer II

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

  Coordinated vehicle control requirements scoping for several test milestones including TVAC and EMI, organized more than five sprints of over ten developers from multiple teams to implement and validate all control code, individually implemented and reviewed code as part of each sprint, and lead software release process by executing run for record tests and organizing team-wide data reviews.Wrote vehicle operations procedures, organized shifted operations with on-call support, trained over ten new operators, and worked as primary operator and on-call support for several cumulative months of shifted operations for vehicle tests, including 24/7 operations. Show less

• Avionics Software Engineer

  • Oct 2019 - Jan 2020

  Created flight software development roadmap and scoped automated test procedure to validate all avionics subsystems of several new satellite platforms after initial integration.

• Launch Systems Software Engineer

  • Jan 2018 - Oct 2019

  Contributed development to C++ finite element fluid simulation software used to validate Falcon 9 launch operations, including: improving stability for arbitrary types of fluid mixtures and REFPROP plugins, adding electrical simulation topology detection and solvers, improving multithreaded simulation ability to tolerate asynchronous solver steps, and improving OpenGL based UI and user requests for more than six teams across the company.Supported bring-up and took ownership of automated Falcon 9 launch simulations run in continuous integration, which were previously done manually by launch engineers before each launch, saving days of engineers’ time per launch.Created real-time aborts analysis tool to assess all possible abort conditions in parallel during simulations, savings hundreds of hours of testing per launch that would have been needed to discover each issue serially.Improved fidelity of automated simulations by adding gas simulations to previous propellant-only tests, and then working with launch team to develop worst-case fault test, which uncovered more than ten different logical errors in automated fault handling.Supported first two “Starhopper” tests by adding algorithms to automatically generate simulation configuration files which were previously maintained by hand, developing algorithms to convert counts to engineering units, and deploying combined launch pad and vehicle sim for operations engineers to validate new automation code. Show less

• Launch Intern

  • May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Revised fluid simulation models of two test stands and two ground support equipment sites to validate first ever Falcon 9 stage 1 block 4 acceptance test procedures. Revised fluid simulation models of two test stands and two ground support equipment sites to validate first ever Falcon 9 stage 1 block 4 acceptance test procedures.

• Launch Intern

  • Sep 2016 - Jan 2017

  Built fluid simulation models of LC-39A and SLC-4E ground support equipment and supporting automation sims and verification of Falcon 9 launch operations. Supported simulations for the first Falcon 9 launch from LC-39a, and first full thrust launch from SLC-4E. Built fluid simulation models of LC-39A and SLC-4E ground support equipment and supporting automation sims and verification of Falcon 9 launch operations. Supported simulations for the first Falcon 9 launch from LC-39a, and first full thrust launch from SLC-4E.



Rockwell Automation

• United States
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Hardware Engineering Co-op

  • May 2016 - Sep 2016

  Designed interface for bidirectional communication between ASIC and external backplane Designed monitoring software for data acquisition and analysis for PCB thermal testing Created interfaces for peripherals and communications protocols for ASIC emulation Designed interface for bidirectional communication between ASIC and external backplane Designed monitoring software for data acquisition and analysis for PCB thermal testing Created interfaces for peripherals and communications protocols for ASIC emulation



Sensing and Interactions Laboratory

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

  Optimized medical applications for Google Glass, and analyzed facial recognition algorithms for software implementation. Designed and created applications which use sensor data from Android devices to design applications to store motion data and geographic data as the foundation for continuing projects. Optimized medical applications for Google Glass, and analyzed facial recognition algorithms for software implementation. Designed and created applications which use sensor data from Android devices to design applications to store motion data and geographic data as the foundation for continuing projects.



Washington State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Designed hardware implementations of machine learning classification mechanisms for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling of voltage and frequency islands, then created and presented a poster on the designs implemented. Designed hardware implementations of machine learning classification mechanisms for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling of voltage and frequency islands, then created and presented a poster on the designs implemented.



Sopharmia, Inc.

• United States

• Lab Research Assistant

  • Dec 2013 - Jan 2014

  • Performed spectroscopic characterization of a new class of monobactam antibiotic substrate • Characterized the kinetics of hydrolysis of monobactam substrate by metallo-β-lactamases • Performed spectroscopic characterization of a new class of monobactam antibiotic substrate • Characterized the kinetics of hydrolysis of monobactam substrate by metallo-β-lactamases



Sopharmia Inc.

• United States

• Lab Research Assistant

  • May 2013 - Jul 2013

  • Characterized enzymes inhibited by potential new antibiotic candidates • Determined IC50 and partition ratio-values via stopped time assays using a ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer. • Characterized enzymes inhibited by potential new antibiotic candidates • Determined IC50 and partition ratio-values via stopped time assays using a ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer.