Irene Smith
Aeronautics Engineer, Software at NASA Ames Research Center
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIrene Smith is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building AWS serverless systems and leading small agile teams at NASA, where she ensured compliance with stringent security requirements while automating CI/CD pipelines and benchmarking distributed performance. Her background spans backend API design with OpenAPI/REST, OAuth2, Python, Java/Spring Boot and Java concurrency, plus DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, Gradle/Maven, SonarQube and Whitesource for vulnerability management. She has hands-on experience in flight-test software for aeronautics research, tying cloud cost monitoring and operational testing to regulatory outcomes for the FAA. A pragmatic engineer who also shipped front-end and mobile apps earlier in her career, Irene pairs deep systems knowledge with a habit of stewarding both security and delivery. Outside work she’s active in community service and enjoys square dancing, bowling, swimming and loud alt-country music—evidence of a collaborative leader who balances technical rigor with real-world engagement.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Degree, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science Degree, Industrial Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Science Degree, Electrical Engineering; Digital Control and Statistical Information Processing, Master of Science Degree, Electrical Engineering; Digital Control and Statistical Information Processing at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (19)
swagger10
utm10
api10
openapi9
uss8
astm7
spring-boot5
spring5
java4
spring-web4
yang3
sequence3
passkey3
altium-designer3
spring-security3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/utm-apis
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
The collection of APIs for NASA's UTM project in the form of OpenAPI documents.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 527 commits in 3 years
apiutmopenapi31nasaopenapi
issmith1/particle-physics
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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