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At a glance
Staff Aerospace Software Engineer at Jacobs. Python mission software, shared interfaces, messaging, and CI/CD across roughly 20 repositories. Technical delivery and mentoring for a team of about 10. Lead Software Engineer at SSAI supporting NASA Goddard Earth science platforms, 2017–2025, including flood mapping (GeoHorizons co-author, 2026), LAADS DAAC, and Earth Observatory.
Co-author, A web-based high-resolution global water and flood mapping platform, GeoHorizons (AGU / Geological Society of London), 2026. Software engineering for a NASA-supported system delivering near-real-time, high-resolution satellite-derived water and flood products worldwide.
- Current role
- Staff Aerospace Software Engineer · Jacobs National Security
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Open to
- Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, and technical leadership roles that combine strong software engineering with delivery, architecture, and developing engineers.
Current scope
- Engineering
- Python services, shared interfaces, messaging, tests, CI/CD, and release engineering.
- Technical leadership
- Coordinates integration and delivery across teams, helps set engineering standards and technical direction, anticipates cross-team issues, and drives problems through resolution.
- Team development
- Mentors and coaches engineers, supports onboarding, delegates technical work, and helps translate program priorities into executable software.
- Operating model
- Staff individual contributor with broad technical and delivery influence. Formal people-management responsibility remains with management.