Staff Aerospace Software Engineer / Jacobs

Karl Hill

Complex systems. Reliable software.

I build mission software and public data platforms. Thirty years of hands-on engineering; technical leadership at Jacobs today.

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A body of work / 1996–today

Washington, DC · Code, systems, and technical leadership.

Selected engineering / 01–03

Featured Work

What I built, the decisions I made, and the evidence.

All work

Jacobs · 2025–present

Problem: Independent services, inconsistent delivery practices, and integration risk across partner teams.
Contribution: Shared CI/CD and DevSecOps gates, portable messaging, integration standards, and hands-on coaching.

~20 repositories · 3 environments · 6 engineers onboarded

Current program scope. Shared ownership; program-specific details are not public.

NASA · 2017–2025

Problem: Turn satellite imagery into flood products without a chain of manual processing runs.
Contribution: 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.

NASA · 2017–2025

LAADS DAAC / Find Data

Problem: Make a complex satellite archive searchable and orderable without replacing its existing interfaces.
Contribution: Find Data workflows and incremental delivery modernization with GitLab CI/CD, Helm, and Kubernetes.

5-step search-to-order workflow · MODIS and VIIRS access

Live public artifact. No query-time or user-growth claim.

How I work

Shared checks, clear interfaces, and review that tests the reasoning—not just the code.

Engineering notes

Thirty years across enterprise, NASA Goddard, and aerospace mission software — the notes cover what held up in practice.

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