Alex Desharnais
Technical Group Supervisor, Enterprise Software, Systems, And Modeling Engineering at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Desharnais is a seasoned software and systems engineering leader with eight years at NASA JPL and a two-decade-plus technical career guiding enterprise and mission-critical software. He currently supervises teams building integrated, AI-powered software infrastructure for mission lifecycle support and has led multi-million-dollar digital engineering partnerships with Boeing and Honeywell. Alex blends hands-on agile practice leadership—sponsoring NASA’s Agency-wide Agile Community of Practice—with product and tooling stewardship across enterprise services like Jira, GitHub Enterprise, and Artifactory. He has driven early institutional adoption of ITAR/CUI-compliant AI tooling and LLM initiatives for engineering, demonstrating a rare mix of compliance-minded procurement and cutting-edge GenAI strategy. Known for turning complex systems into traceable, automated lifecycles, he pairs systems-level architecture thinking with pragmatic change management for flight and enterprise customers.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (15)
ontologies7
adapter5
ecore5
satellite5
diagram3
jekyll3
vscode-extension3
agent-based-modeling2
owl2
vscode2
visual-studio-code2
crossword2
language-server1
theia1
modeling1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
electrolexx/interactive-disco-website
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
Portfolio site
Contributions:22 PRs, 39 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
cssjavascriptreactreactjs
electrolexx/react-boilerplate-frontend
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Client-side based React boilerplate
Contributions:14 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
reactreact-boilerplateboilerplateclient-sidewebpack
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