SpaceX
part 1. Rockets
I worked as an integral member of the team that took the Falcon 9 from a single use rocket launching once a year to a fully reusable rocket that launches tens of missions per year.
I worked as a software engineer writing code used to control and monitor the operation of all SpaceX vehicles.
Here I am next to a Falcon 9. I dedicated many years of my life to this rocket and I loved every minute of it. Wow it’s big!
This is the first orbital class rocket that landed back on land. I spent one year following this rocket through it’s entire life cycle. I was there when we first powered it on in the factory, when it test fired in Texas, and when it landed in Florida!
I worked in Mission Control here at HQ and at the launch sites a lot! The rush of being in that room is unlike anything else in the world.
Here I am inside of the Dragon 2 space capsule. I did some early work on the crew displays and I’m all thumbs up to go to space.
I worked with an incredible team of people. Here’s the launch software team :). We wrote all the software mission controllers used to launch and land Falcon 9.
I got to be there when we landed the first Falcon 9 on an autonomous drone ship. They said it couldn’t be done and arguably much harder than on land!
I spent a lot of time at the test site in Texas. Here’s my favorite picture of a test fire that someone photoshopped on the internet :).
part 2. hyperloop
I designed, wrote, and operated the software for the Hyperloop test track pusher car during the 2016 and 2017 SpaceX Hyperloop student competition.
Here was the second version of the car with upgraded batteries and a user interface shown that I designed.
This was an early version of the pusher car that featured a Tesla Model S battery pack.
Below is a fun teaser video from the first year of the competition. You can catch some sweet shots of me debugging software out in the wild.