Summary
Elijah Spiro is a software systems engineer with nine years of experience building mission-focused software at NASA, where he progressed from web and software engineering internships to a current AST engineering role. He combines solid computer science training (cum laude) with a deep interest in astronomy, having contributed research code at Stanford and continued to blend astrophysics insight into engineering solutions. Based in Florida, he focuses on reliable, production-grade systems that support scientific discovery and exploration. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coder who keeps one foot in research—computer scientist by day, astronomer by night—bringing curiosity-driven problem solving to operational challenges. He has a track record of turning complex scientific requirements into maintainable code across web, research, and systems domains.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree cum laude, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree cum laude, Computer Science at Amherst College
Hawken School