Jacobs · 2025–present
Aerospace mission software
Cloud-native mission simulation and telemetry. What I can publish: the shape of the work, the constraints, and how I lead delivery — not program names, customers, or screenshots.
Staff Aerospace Software Engineer Jacobs National Security 20+ Years
Karl Hill
Seeking Engineering Manager roles in mission software — also open to Staff/Principal IC when the mandate is platform delivery and standards.
01 — Selected Work
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Jacobs · 2025–present
Aerospace mission software
Cloud-native mission simulation and telemetry. What I can publish: the shape of the work, the constraints, and how I lead delivery — not program names, customers, or screenshots.
NASA · 2017–2025
Flood Mapping System
Mission-critical geospatial platform generating near-real-time flood inundation maps during active global disaster events. Architected the fully automated pipeline — from raw satellite sensor ingestion through geospatial product generation, dissemination, and integration with international emergency-management networks — engineered for fault tolerance and reliability when latency is measured in hours, not sprints.
NASA · 2017–2025
Flood Mapping System
Mission-critical geospatial platform generating near-real-time flood inundation maps during active global disaster events. Architected the fully automated pipeline — from raw satellite sensor ingestion through geospatial product generation, dissemination, and integration with international emergency-management networks — engineered for fault tolerance and reliability when latency is measured in hours, not sprints.
NASA · 2017–2025
LAADS DAAC
NASA’s Level-1 and Atmosphere archive: modernized Find Data search and order, the public LAADS portal, and LANCE near-real-time access for MODIS and VIIRS holdings. GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Perl services that had to keep distributing while the web systems changed.
NASA · 2017–2025
LAADS DAAC
NASA’s Level-1 and Atmosphere archive: modernized Find Data search and order, the public LAADS portal, and LANCE near-real-time access for MODIS and VIIRS holdings. GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Perl services that had to keep distributing while the web systems changed.
02 — Why Me
Proof
Eight years of NASA Earth science platforms you can open — flood mapping, LAADS, and the Goddard chapters under Also shipped.
Constraint
Jacobs National Security mission software where program details stay unpublished. The public substitute is how delivery runs under that constraint.
Ready
Seeking Engineering Manager roles while practicing the craft on live work — people outcomes on About, the written operating system on How I run delivery.
03 — Impact
20+
Years of Experience
1.5M
Monthly Visitors · NASA Platforms
$105M
Platform Acquisition Value
~60%
Efficiency Gained via Automation