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Mission-critical platforms across NASA Earth science, disaster response, clinical genomics, and enterprise security.

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01 — Projects · Linux

Direct Readout Laboratory
PHP Linux NGINX

NASA · 2017–2025

Direct Readout Laboratory

Real-time scientific data-processing hub ingesting multi-instrument sensor streams from polar-orbiting satellites. Designed the ingestion and reformatting architecture that transforms raw downlinks into Level-0 through Level-2 geophysical products, sustaining 24/7 distribution to operational centers and a global network of registered direct-broadcast ground stations.

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02 — Open Source

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sim-rs

🚀 High-performance satellite orbit and telemetry simulation engine. Built with Rust and Tokio for scale-testing mission control pipelines and high-throughput data sinks

Rust

pipeguard

🛡️ Policy-as-code validator for Bitbucket Pipelines. Enforce CI/CD standards, deployment safety, and organizational consistency across repositories.

Go

bb-run

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🧪 Run Bitbucket Pipelines locally — execute your bitbucket-pipelines.yml faithfully in Docker or on your host, with parallel steps, fail-fast, and artifacts.

Python atlassian atlassian-bitbucket

driftlens

🔍 The observability lens for configuration drift. Detect, classify, and score risky environment differences across .env, YAML, and JSON with policy-as-code.

Python

drift-rs

🛰️ High-performance telemetry and simulation data sink for aerospace operations. Built in Rust for memory safety, ultra-low latency, and mission-critical reliability.

Rust

homebrew-tap

Homebrew tap for bb-run (run Bitbucket Pipelines locally)

Ruby