Staff Aerospace Software Engineer
Hands-on engineering and cross-program technical leadership at Jacobs: mission software, platform engineering, integration, DevSecOps, developer experience, and delivery.
Nearly 30 years building production systems across aerospace, NASA, national security, and enterprise software.
Selected engineering
Mission delivery, engineering systems, and externally verifiable NASA work.
All workJacobs · 2025–present
Cross-program technical direction, shared interfaces, DevSecOps, integration, and engineer development.
Core program: ~20 repositories · 3 environments · ~10 engineers
Core-program scale. Broader influence: shared practices and coordination across additional aerospace efforts.
Open source · Independent engineering
Built focused tools for local CI, prioritizing test gaps, and pipeline governance.
Inspect the source, tests, and usage documentation
Independently authored and maintained; public source is the evidence.
NASA · 2017–2025
Led Python processing and containerized delivery on AWS, connecting imagery to a public map.
90.9% overall accuracy in the published system evaluation
Collaborative scientific result, not an individual engineering KPI. Software (Equal), GeoHorizons 2026.
How I work
Shared checks, clear interfaces, and review that tests the reasoning—not just the code.
See the delivery systemCI/CD and DevSecOps gates that travel with the work across teams and environments.
Integration standards and portable messaging so partners ship against contracts, not folklore.
Coaching and critique that tests decisions and tradeoffs—not only whether the build is green.
Engineering notes
Engineering systems, technical leadership, and teams — making integration visible, delivery repeatable, and engineers more effective.
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