Miguel Peña
Senior Software Engineer at Raytheon
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMiguel Peña is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and sustaining mission-critical systems for NASA, NOAA, and defense customers. He has delivered cloud-native, containerized platforms and automated CI/CD pipelines using Python, Django, Docker, GitHub Actions, and AWS, and has deep hands-on experience validating planetary data and radar mission workflows. At JPL and Raytheon he supported Perseverance, Curiosity, and the NISAR/NASA-ISRO SAR efforts, while also modernizing telemetry and workstation orchestration for Mars missions. His background as a Navy Information Systems Technician informs a strong operational mindset for reliability, security, and large-scale system maintenance. Miguel combines SRE discipline with full‑stack development skills (PHP/Node/D3 and modern Vue/Nuxt front ends) and a knack for automating repeatable test and deployment processes. Based in Los Angeles, he brings both spaceflight-tested rigor and pragmatic engineering to complex, data-driven projects.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Washington Bothell
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (56)
volumes9
ecology9
semantics9
validation9
shell8
nvm8
geneontology8
lts8
bash8
ontology8
nodejs8
data-files8
searching7
data-model7
nasa-api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jjfeore/turingtweets
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Turing Tweets Project
Contributions:86 commits, 14 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 days
pythonturingtwittertweets
miguelp1986/budget-points-tracker
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:41 PRs, 85 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
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