Software engineer and technical leader working on aerospace mission software at Jacobs. Previously eight years on NASA Goddard Earth science systems — flood maps, satellite-data access, and public science publishing.
The work connects software other people depend on with the delivery practices, standards, and coaching around it.
Technical leadership stays close to the code.
Current responsibilities span hands-on development, technical direction, delivery coordination, integration across teams, engineering standards, and mentoring for a team of about 10 engineers.
Translates program needs into scoped, sequenced work with clear dependencies, ownership, and integration paths.
Code review covers implementation, tests, interfaces, failure modes, and maintainability — while helping engineers understand the reasoning behind the feedback.
Uses CI/CD, automated testing, security checks, repository standards, and release practices to make quality repeatable rather than dependent on individual memory.
Onboarding, mentoring, technical feedback, and delegation are used to expand ownership across the team rather than concentrating it in one person.
Formal personnel management remains with management; current leadership is technical, delivery-focused, and cross-team.
Reliable delivery is an engineering problem.
A change is ready when another engineer can understand it, review it, rebuild it, test it, and see the evidence that supports releasing it.
The common thread has been software that matters operationally — first enterprise systems, then NASA science platforms, and now aerospace mission software.
Jacobs National Security · 2025–present
Hands-on engineer and technical delivery leader working across roughly 20 repositories and multiple deployment environments.
SSAI / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · 2017–2025
Earth science systems for flood mapping, satellite-data access, and public science publishing. The map, Find Data, and Earth Observatory are public.
Before NASA, built case-management, CRM, travel, and enterprise software across healthcare, consulting, and commercial environments. At Sabre that included new PHP applications and features on existing ones.
The full history, technologies, education, and certifications are available on the resume.
Full resume →20+
Years building software
~10
Engineers on the current team
~6
Engineers onboarded and coached
~20
Repositories across the current environment
1.5M
Monthly visitors · Earth Observatory
Co-author
GeoHorizons
Published online 5 May 2026
Co-author of research on the Global Water and Flood Mapping System, a NASA-supported experimental platform for high-resolution surface-water and flood products derived from commercial satellite imagery.
Frederick S. Policelli, Albert J. Kettner, Karl M. Hill, and Devon V. Maloney. GeoHorizons, gh2025-7. The Geological Society / AGU.
Read the paperBeyond the work
When not writing software, solving engineering problems, or working with a team, the other work is music: songwriter and musician across post-punk, indie rock, hardcore, and alternative. Independent label work has also supported underground and alternative artists in Washington, DC and beyond.
Recording and performance credits are available on Discogs.