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Los Angeles, CA, US

• Main Ground Systems developer for a small start-up based team working on the Edge 130 UAV system.
• Maintained FlightWave’s internal C++ QGroundControl interface to extend mission planning capabilities andenhance usability while deploying onto a proprietary android-based controller system.
• Implemented support for Mavlink communication protocol on embedded computing stack for flight hardware.
• Added interface layer to securely share images and logs from aircraft to controller system.
• Prototyped internal logging and development tools in Python for analyzing flight data.
• Created Qt interfaces to facilitate the manufacturing of aircraft components.

Developing internal Python tools to organize data and automate the generation of Excel-basedfinancial reports for the accounting department.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Software Development to support Data Visualization and SimulationNASA Honor Awards - Mars 2020 Engineering Analysis Software Team
• Developed an internal research tool with Cyber Security staff to uncover network security issues within JPL using Python, Qt (PyQt), and OpenGL.
• Prototyped interactive data visualizations with React and D3 to display network traffic data.
• Designed and wrote 3D graph visualization in the Unreal Gaming Engine.
• Developed an interface to search and sort common vulnerabilities relevant to JPL’s network using Pythonand SQLite databases.
• Worked on Mars 2020 Flight Software team to develop Python unit tests for flight modules supporting vehicle driving and data gathering.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Developing a system model visualization within JPL using PyQt and OpenGL.

Blacksburg, VA

• Refactored and extended an existing user-interface to control a Boston Dynamics ATLAS Robot in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals using Qt, ROS, and RVIZ in C++.
• Improved usability by re-designing user-interface elements and increasing access to high-priority functionality.
• Developed Game Controller support for moving objects using different 3D coordinate systems.
• Implemented rendering an occluded object using Ogre3D and GLSL Shaders.
• Developed Manipulation Tests to gauge effective 3D manipulation methods.

Durham, NC

• Designed and implemented the Python backend for a website to report test results to managers and executives.
• Created a groovy script to pull and organize metrics for all server racks in the Pure Applications Lab.
• Automated Test Cases to assess specific system features of Pure System racks.
• Configured and updated hardware on Red Hat Linux systems to support development team and the release of Pure Applications System 1.1.

Southborough, MA United States

Performed Software Testing on mobile and desktop applications for companies such as Autodesk, Adidas, HBO, and Mixamo.-Utest Certified Tester: Bronze rating (Top 10% of testers)-Submitted 38 bugs and 53 Functional/Usability reports