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.
Space weather & ground software
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
Open source scientific Python
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
Geoelectric hazards research
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