Slingshot Aerospace builds world-class space simulation and analytics solutions. We are driven by our vision of accelerating space sustainability to create a safer, more connected world.

Space is increasingly complex due to the exponential growth of global launch activity, the proliferation of new data sources, and the ever-growing body of new satellites and debris. Organizations are making mission-critical decisions in this high-risk environment and they need the right information at the right time. Slingshot Aerospace empowers government and commercial space organizations to better design, manage, and safeguard their assets, as well as mitigate risks, to ensure safe and reliable operations for all space-faring users.

We are achieving this by bringing the space domain into the digital environment and fusing together data from different sources to provide a full, dynamic orbital picture. In doing so, Slingshot Aerospace customers can make decisions at the speed of relevance and achieve clarity in complex environments.

University of Nevada-Reno

Senior Software Engineer

Lead engineer on a newly-formed team that was charged with decomposing a set of legacy JSF-based UI's into modern React widgets, while also owning an end-to-end capability that spanned applications. I was responsible for most major architectural and system design decisions. My code contributions were more heavily in the back-end side, but also included GraphQL schema design, resolvers, and mutations, and unit and functional tests (Jest, Cypress).
Continued to be an essential resource for questions about the domain and the product, across engineering, product management, and design. Frequently the first person brought in when responding to a production incident, often developing mitigation plans, and leading root cause analysis afterwards.

Staff Software Engineer

Continued to expand the functionality of the Java REST service I had been working on as a Junior engineer, but with more of a leadership role. By now the domain expert on the team and "go-to person" across the org for related topics, with the deepest knowledge of the data model, I frequently mentored interns and junior engineers, and worked with leadership to shape the roadmap in a way that created for the largest customer benefit. I decreased response times on a selection of key, underperforming API's by as much as 95% through code refactor, tweaking DB schema, and adding targeted indexes, with all changes done online with immediate roll-back available. Helped migrate the service to AWS using Kubernetes, including planning and implementing a migration strategy for moving DB LOB storage to S3 and implementing a more robust encryption procedure with regular key rotation. 
I also was deeply involved in the legacy monolithic application that the service was decomposing (Java/SQL Server/EclipseLink). With almost non-existent documentation and large amounts of dead or orphaned code, I frequently had to reverse-engineer and analyze prod data to determine the actual behavior, developing strong SQL querying skills in the process. This led to me frequently building ah-hoc (and sometimes complex) SQL queries for business partners to answer questions and fulfill critical requests. 
Continued a heavy focus on production support, moving from NewRelic to AppDynamics, and adding container resource management and tuning to the mix.

Scaled and built out a REST-based Java web service that provided business-critical work-flows, with high availability and wildly variable load. Quickly moved from a junior role to taking on heavier tasks, such as designing new endpoints/workflows, creating data model changes and online migration scripts, while expanding knowledge of a highly complex domain (US payroll taxes). Supported the product end-to-end with monitoring and alerting (Splunk, NewRelic), taking the lead in eliminating alerts that were non-actionable, while fixing root causes of the more frequent ones.

Software Engineer

Started my journey from C++ engineer to Java expert and learned what real enterprise software engineering looked like (first exposure to CI/CD, automated test suites, etc). Finished my 'summer internship project' in 3 weeks (password lockout feature for internal web tool - LDAP, Oracle, Java, Apache Flex) and began picking up regular sprint work. Had some fantastic mentors and learned much more than I had imagined I would.

Software Engineering Intern

Administration of Linux & Windows workstations with integrated authentication, in addition to print, email, and licensing servers.

Student System Administrator

Worked on an embedded ARM/linux system with a C backend, SQLite database, and Javascript/CSS/JQuery web interface.