Joshua Alexander
CAIDA Software Lead - NASA TOSC at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Alexander is a software lead with 9 years of experience applying CMMI-driven engineering practices to mission-critical space systems, currently leading CAIDA software efforts for NASA TOSC in Houston. He designs and delivers launch vehicle telemetry emulation and XTCE-based telemetry tooling used in Launch Control Systems testing and firing room verification. Earlier roles at STScI and NASA Goddard show deep DevOps and CI/CD experience—he set up CircleCI/conda pipelines for high-profile astronomy notebooks used by JWST/Hubble teams. Joshua blends hands-on coding, sprint planning, and configuration management to shepherd features from requirements through production for safety-critical environments. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with a specialization in Computational Perception and Robotics, bringing both academic rigor and practical operational experience to spaceflight software delivery.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Towson UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science Specialization in Computational Perception and Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science Specialization in Computational Perception and Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at The Community College of Baltimore County
English
Github Skills (10)
automation10
bash10
automations10
docker10
automation-testing10
dockers10
cicd10
github-pages9
conda9
astronomy3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spacetelescope/notebooks
Feb 2019 - May 2019
This repo contains no notebook content; instead, this is a landing page that links to other repositories.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 26 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on setting up and configuring the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the repository. This included creating and modifying scripts for installing dependencies using conda, setting up the environment, and deploying to GitHub Pages. The user's contributions also involved integrating CircleCI for automated builds and deployments.
maststscinotebooksastronomyspacex
obviousrebel/notebooks
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Curated Notebooks from STScI
Contributions:5 PRs, 352 pushes, 18 branches in 3 months
apljupyter-notebooknotebookstscinotebooks
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