Melbourne, Florida, United States
Software Engineer with 7 years’ experience in developing safety-critical systems across aerospace, defense, and medical industries. Expertise spans real-time control systems, embedded programming, data fusion algorithms, and automation frameworks for space launch, military aviation, missile guidance, and medical device platforms. Secret clearance holder seeking senior technical roles across diverse industries.
Space Launch System - Exploration Upper Stage Controller • Created PLC Logic utilizing PID Control Loops for EUS propellant fueling systems, optimizing real-time control and system reliability within a highly complex, safety-critical aerospace architecture • Engineered multi-threaded C++ pipelines for real-time telemetry processing, scaling system capacity to handle tens of thousands of concurrent data points, eliminating previous volume-related performance bottlenecks • Built automated verification frameworks for mission-critical component validation, streamlining dozens of requirements checks and eliminating hundreds of hours of manual testing for the development team
• Contributed to a successful FDA De Novo classification grant for the Aurie System, a Class II reusable intermittent urinary catheter system with software-controlled high-level disinfection. • Implemented embedded C and modern C++ control software on a SAMD21 bare-metal microcontroller, delivering closed-loop temperature regulation for high-level disinfection, automated disinfectant circulation, RFID-based catheter use-life tracking, and a dot-matrix user interface within tight memory and timing constraints. • Authored IEC 62304 software lifecycle documentation including software requirements specification, system architecture, detailed design, verification plans, and design specifications, aligned with FDA premarket software documentation guidance for a Class II medical device. • Led responses to FDA Major Deficiencies on software documentation during De Novo review, working iteratively with the regulatory consultant and quality team across submission cycles to resolve reviewer concerns and achieve final acceptance. • Produced the software bill of materials (SBOM) and cybersecurity documentation aligned with FDA’s premarket cybersecurity guidance for medical devices, including software-of-unknown-provenance (SOUP) evaluation and security risk assessment. • Created and executed unit and integration test protocols with bidirectional requirements-to-verification traceability, generating the software V&V evidence required under the device’s Class II special controls for software verification, validation, and hazard analysis. • Designed MCU-to-host communication interfaces over UART/I2C for device identifier and telemetry exchange, and collaborated with quality, regulatory, and systems engineering throughout the software lifecycle with emphasis on patient safety and device reliability.
F-35 Program: Tech Refresh 3, Integrated Core Processor (ICP) • Built automation framework to streamline ICP BIOS programming, replacing manual flashing processes with simultaneous multi-device programming capability and increasing production floor efficiency • Diagnosed and resolved BIOS-level and embedded device driver issues, including TCP/IP stack implementation and UART communication, ensuring system stability and compliance with production deadlines • Onboarded 5 new team members as a technical peer, delivering program-specific training and development environment guidance to accelerate their integration into the F-35 project
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Program • Created data fusion algorithms for the E-2D's Mission Computer and Display, integrating radar and ESM data from multiple vehicles using C++ and Ada to provide comprehensive real-time battlefield awareness for airborne early warning operations • Performed intensive two-week flight hardware evaluation at NAS Patuxent River, testing new software capabilities on actual E-2D aircraft hardware for the first time to validate system integration and functional compliance with mission requirements
• Developed real-time 6DoF physics simulation for missile guidance system testing using C++ and Python, creating Hardware-in-the-Loop environment to validate guidance computer performance in bare-metal testing scenarios • Engineered a MATLAB-C MEX framework to embed C code within an existing MATLAB-based simulation, significantly improving computational efficiency and reducing simulation runtime. • Obtained U.S. Department of Defense Secret Clearance for work on classified projects.