Brian Hayden
Senior Software Engineer at Space Telescope Science Institute
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hayden is a Senior Software Engineer and product owner with a Ph.D. in Physics and 11 years of experience applying cloud engineering to astrophysics data pipelines for Hubble and James Webb operations. At the Space Telescope Science Institute he led development of a Terraform-deployed hybrid AWS application that cut Hubble reprocessing campaigns from weeks to days, and authored open-source components in the spacetelescope CALDP/CALCLOUD repositories. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and product stewardship, he spent 15 months directing a 6–8 person team across dozens of AWS accounts and a multi-hundred-thousand-dollar annual budget. His background includes 24/7 commissioning work on JWST data flows and deep experience with event-driven architectures, HTCondor/AWS Batch, Kafka, and CI/CD automation. He blends scientific rigor from a research career with pragmatic cloud-native tooling to accelerate mission-critical science delivery.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of Notre DameBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, 3.83, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, 3.83 at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (101)
python10
astronomy10
x4foundations10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
science10
calibration10
redirector9
ignition9
dms9
mule9
terraform9
deep-learning9
cosmology9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Misunderstood-Wookiee/Mules-and-Warehouses-Extended
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Compliation and Maintenace for the famous mule mods.
Contributions:5 reviews, 118 commits, 62 PRs in 1 year 11 months
distribution-mulemodtravel-mulesupply-mulestation-mules
bhayden53/caldp
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
The DMS environment for HST calibration software
Contributions:110 pushes, 17 branches in 11 months
calibrationdmshst
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