Chris Baluta
Software Engineer at Institute for Space and Astronautical Science (NASA/JAXA)
Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Baluta is a software engineer with a physics/astrophysics background and nine years of focused experience building data-analysis and spacecraft-operations software in the aerospace sector. He has designed and implemented simulation and estimation tools—Kalman filtering, orbit/attitude propagation, and visibility/targeting calculations—supporting major NASA/JAXA X‑ray missions (Chandra, Suzaku, XRISM) and the Astroscale Elsa‑D debris mission. Comfortable across C, Python, Perl and Linux, he also packages and distributes systems via Docker and virtual machines for reproducible operations. His work blends rigorous mathematical techniques and stochastic/process-oriented algorithm development with hands-on operational software delivery. Based in Sagamihara, Japan, he brings the perspective of a physical scientist who turned domain expertise into robust, mission-critical engineering.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Master's Degree, Astronomy & Astrophysics at Pennsylvania State UniversityVillanova University
Github Skills (14)
vcenter9
openflow9
hypervisor8
oms8
vdi8
architecture8
virtual-network8
network-visualization7
openvswitch6
ruby6
network-analysis6
network5
data-center2
mesos2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akirapop/hamsan
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
akirapop/openvnet
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
centeropenflowdata-centeredgevirtual-network
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