Sean Rapp
Software Engineer at Space Telescope Science Institute
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSean Rapp is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building mission-focused systems for space exploration, currently contributing to software at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He spent four years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center developing launch-control avionics tooling—building telemetry simulators, automated test scripting, and a React/FastAPI dashboard that sped up simulator deployment and analysis. Sean blends full-stack skills (PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, React, Python) with practical systems engineering, having replaced COTS tools with bespoke telemetry processors to meet stringent performance needs. His background includes robotics simulation work with ROS/Gazebo and a rare combination of technical fluency and language study in Japanese, reflecting both cross-disciplinary curiosity and an ability to bridge engineering and international collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Language, 4.0, Japanese Language, 4.0 at Meikai UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
kanji10
blender8
sqlalchemy8
packaging8
mining8
json8
web-application8
json-schema7
assertion7
dependency-manager7
fastapi7
robustness7
compatibility7
python7
package-manager6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BillingEmail/Drawblade
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:178 commits, 75 pushes in 2 months
reactscrollingplatformerjavascripttypescript
shintoo/PL0
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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