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* Developing The University of Mars, a full introductory astronomy course for undergraduates, which has been used by tens of thousands of students to learn astronomy and scientific reasoning.* Creating the website to sell and administer the course using AWS, Django, PostgreSQL

* Contract position to update University of Mars astronomy game and associated web backend.* Integrated Django application with Canvas grading system to minimize grading work for instructors.* Updated API endpoints to use Django Rest Framework generic views to simplify code, reduce queries, and improve hotspot performance.* Integrated two new lessons into the game to increase the amount of interactive content for students to better understand the concepts of Hubble’s Law and the Inverse Square Law.

* Developed Python library and web application features for rubicon-ml to track machine learning experiments for more robust model risk analysis.* Led integration between machine learning tool and internal system of record for access control, proactively communicating across teams to address issues.* Worked with Prefect, Dask, and Rapids to scale machine learning models to work in distributed environments scaling from 30GB to >1TB training dataset.* Worked at the interface of software engineering and data science to integrate software development best practices into machine learning model development.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Technical lead of 10 person team developing a data hub for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services using Python, Django, Pandas, Node.js, and PostgreSQL on AWS(Remote) Lead developer of team creating virtual reality applications for government clients using Unity3DLead developer on project to create Google Cardboard application distributed to the entire firm (>25,000 employees), and managed iOS and Android app store releasesLead developer on Pier Pressure app for the Navy releasing on both Android and iOS stores

Designed and programmed games and content in C# using Unity3D for Astro 1, which serves as a full introductory astronomy course at the universityCreated and maintained systems, tools, and MySQL database to handle all data for the course including saving, dialogue, grading, and building the project for each releaseManaged communication and schedule for our team including weekly tested releases from January 2014 to April 2014Taught Astro 11 during Fall 2010, Spring 2011 semesters

Learned VHDL programming in order to create firmware for Naval useRevised firmware for a new revision of a SONAR boardUpdated the transmission protocol for GNU RadioBuilt architecture to receive data from local and remote FIFOs and send it out tracking its sourceCreated a file management system for a program meant to emulate a hard drive using arrays of flash memory

Created and implemented programs in PerlAnalyzed data in Linux and UNIX environmentsAnalyzed and resourced technical documentsTrained graduate students in the use of MINFITPresented research at 208th and 209th AAS meetingsSubmitted first author paper published in the peer reviewed Astrophysical JournalEducated 15 High School teachers in observational astronomy