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 (71)
mule10
python10
x4foundations10
redirector10
calibration10
core-library9
ignition9
dms9
science9
astronomy9
deep-learning9
operating-system9
machine-learning9
aws9
boto9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spacetelescope/caldp
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
The DMS environment for HST calibration software
Contributions:17 releases, 33 reviews, 165 commits in 2 years 5 months
calibrationdmshst
bhayden53/calcloud
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:186 pushes, 50 branches in 8 months
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