J L
Director, Ground Software & IT at VAST
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJ L is a Director of Ground Software & IT with a decade of experience building mission operations, ground station, and spacecraft communication systems for commercial spaceflight. He co-founded Modern Fidelity and led cross-disciplinary teams to ship consumer hardware and embedded firmware, and later scaled ground and mission software at Launcher and Vast to support regularly flying orbital vehicles and an upcoming commercial space station. With a BS in Informatics (Magna Cum Laude) and background in aerospace engineering, he bridges avionics, cloud-native operations, and test-data tooling to enable rapid R&D and reliable on-orbit operations. He has hands-on experience from RF antenna arrays and satellite ground segments to Kubernetes-deployed Golang services, bringing both product-led startup grit and safety-conscious aerospace engineering to complex systems. Notably, he combines the perspective of a commercial pilot and software leader, which informs practical, operationally focused design decisions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Informatics, Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors in Informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Informatics, Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors in Informatics at University of WashingtonFlying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer Nanodegree, Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Boulder High SchoolBachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering Sciences at University of Colorado at BoulderTransfer, Transfer at Seattle Central CollegeTara Performing Arts High School
Spanish, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (68)
postgresql10
windows10
rest-api10
project-management10
django10
taiga10
dart10
cross-platform10
kanban10
product-management10
android10
macos10
flutter10
docker10
ios10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
leedslooklisten/http-redirect
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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