Joseph Rios
Principal Airspace Automation Manager
California, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Rios is a Principal Airspace Automation Manager and seasoned aviation systems technologist with 13+ years designing and operationalizing UAS Traffic Management and autonomy-enabled airspace solutions at NASA Ames and now SkyGrid. He blends deep technical chops—PhD-level computer engineering and hands-on software leadership—with cross-disciplinary program design, driving concepts from research and simulation into real-world prototypes and standards. Known for removing process friction and translating customer needs into engineering requirements, he has led award-winning software transfers to the FAA and pioneered cloud-based research at NASA. Based in California, he combines academic rigor with product-minded execution to make Beyond Visual-Line-of-Sight operations routine, safe, and scalable—bringing together human factors, UX, and autonomy in novel service architectures. An early mobile app entrepreneur and maintainer of a NASA GitHub presence, he pairs curiosity about practical user tools with large-scale airspace systems expertise.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at California State University - East BayUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Telugu, tok pisin
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Github Skills (43)
utm10
api10
kotlin9
uss9
swagger9
openapi9
android8
java8
astm8
square8
catalog7
testing7
decomposition7
glpk7
quality-assurance7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nasajoey/dwsolver
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
Implementation of Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition built on GLPK.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 13 PRs in 9 months
dantzig-wolfe-decompositiondecompositionglpk
nasa/utm-docs
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:65 commits, 6 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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