Patrice Cappelaere
IBM Federal Strategic Business Development
Pasadena, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolPatrice Cappelaere is a veteran software architect and strategic business leader with nearly three decades of experience designing distributed, resource-oriented systems for aerospace, defense, and federal programs. He has led cloud and autonomy initiatives for NASA, NRL, AFRL and commercial space programs, contributing to early in-space expert systems (Clementine) and sensorweb interoperability through OGC standards. Skilled in API design, security, BPM and open-source component development (MapBuilder, OpenWFE and others), he blends hands-on engineering with program management and CEO experience. Currently focused on federal strategic business development and NASA cloud architecture at IBM, he bridges technical depth and business strategy to deliver operational autonomy and maritime/intelligence integrations. Notably, his work spans from rule-based space autonomy in the 1990s to modern cloud-native architectures and Node.js/Ruby-on-Rails ecosystems, reflecting a rare continuity across eras of space software.
18 years of coding experience
45 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Civil Engineering, Master of Science - MS Civil Engineering at Hautes Etudes Industrielles PolytechincMBA Business Management/Marketing, MBA Business Management/Marketing at Loyola University MarylandMS Civil Engineering, MS Civil Engineering at HEI - Hautes Etudes d'Ingénieur
French
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Github Skills (169)
api10
php10
cumulus10
readable9
vagrant9
specification9
asyncapi9
udev8
virtualization8
reactive8
stomp8
opentelemetry8
v4l28
grafana-plugin8
distributed-tracing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vightel/ojo-doc
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 1 month
vightel/ojo-bot
Nov 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:401 commits, 34 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
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