About
Staff Aerospace Software Engineer at Jacobs combining hands-on engineering with cross-program technical leadership across multiple aerospace mission-software efforts. 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.
Career
The common thread has been software that matters operationally — first enterprise systems, then NASA science platforms, and now aerospace mission software.
Staff Aerospace Software Engineer
Jacobs National Security · 2025–present
Hands-on engineering, shared interfaces, platform practices, and technical delivery across internal and partner teams. The core program spans roughly 20 Python repositories and multiple deployment environments.
- Cross-program integration strategy, architecture and design reviews, engineering standards, delivery coordination, and engineer development. Outcomes live in the current-work case study. Read the case study
Lead Software Engineer
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.
- Flood-mapping system on AWS for satellite-derived products. The live map is public. Open the map
- Find Data search, ordering, and near-real-time access. Web delivery through GitLab CI/CD and Kubernetes alongside existing archive services. Open Find Data
- Earth Observatory publishing platform — editorial workflows, imagery, and the public site. Open Earth Observatory
Earlier engineering work
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 →Current focus
Building mission software and the engineering systems around it at Jacobs. Review and coaching sit in the same week as implementation.
Improving cross-repository developer workflows, integration practices, test quality, and shared delivery standards across teams.
How I work
Implementation, reviews, and coaching belong in the same week. I work on Python services, shared interfaces, messaging, and CI/CD while helping teams turn program priorities into executable software.
My scope is increasingly cross-program: technical direction, engineering systems, integration, architecture, delivery, and engineer development across team boundaries.
Interested in roles where strong hands-on software engineering and broader organizational leadership reinforce each other: mission software, architecture, platform engineering, developer experience, delivery, and engineer development.
Get in touchBeyond 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.