Engineer · Scientist · Open-source maintainer
I build the software that gets science off the ground — spacecraft ground systems at Rocket Lab, data pipelines for NASA missions, and open-source tools the research community runs on every day.
I am a Principal Ground Software Engineer at Rocket Lab, working on the Intermission product area for spacecraft command and control and satellite telemetry analysis.
Before that I was at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, where I was Science Data Center Lead for NASA's IMAP mission, and a Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow with the USGS Geomagnetism Program. My PhD is in aerospace engineering sciences from the University of Colorado, with Jeffrey Thayer.
The through-line across all of it is the same: take research code that only its author can run, and turn it into something reliable, reproducible and open enough that everyone else can build on it too.
Building command-and-control and telemetry systems for spacecraft at Rocket Lab, after leading the Science Data Center for NASA's IMAP mission — ten instrument teams, one processing pipeline, and the infrastructure that delivers the data to the public.
Experience
Maintainer of Matplotlib and Cartopy, two visualization libraries used by millions of people, plus a set of domain packages — bezpy, pysecs, pymsis, enlilviz — that came straight out of the research.
Software
Mapping the risk severe geomagnetic storms pose to the North American power grid, including the first 100-year geoelectric hazard analysis for the US high-voltage network and reconstructions of the 1921, 1940 and 1989 superstorms.
Research