Rohan Daruwala
Mission Manager at Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRohan Daruwala is an embedded software engineer with 10 years of experience building flight-critical systems for launch vehicles, currently serving as Mission Manager at Apex after leading Vulcan flight software as Product Owner at United Launch Alliance. He combines hands-on C/C++ and embedded systems expertise with product stewardship and launch support across Vulcan, Atlas, Delta, and SLS/ICPS families, delivering reliable flight software under operational constraints. Rohan’s background includes internships at JPL and a master’s in Space Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins, grounding his work in both research-grade and production flight environments. He also contributes to Earth-observing open-source tooling—adding robust testing and platform fixes to the satpy project—reflecting a pragmatic focus on data integrity and maintainability. Based in Los Angeles, he bridges deep technical implementation with mission-level coordination, comfortable translating low-level firmware details into launch-ready software products.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (8)
python10
testing10
satellite9
dask9
netcdf9
xray8
xa8
weather8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pytroll/satpy
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Python package for earth-observing satellite data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rohan implemented testing for VIIRS active fire data readers within the satpy project. They added tests for both NetCDF4 and text-based file formats, ensuring data loading and dataset availability. The user refactored code and fixed formatting issues to improve code style and maintainability. Their work also included handling file type variations and platform elaborations.
satellite-imagerypythonsatellitedata-processingearth
badgerloop-software/pod-embedded
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
The embedded systems repository for Hyperloop Competition V
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 298 commits in 2 years 2 months
bare-metalavrhyperlooprtosmicrocontroller
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