Building intelligent systems—from cloud infrastructure to planetary science.
Research Engineer building open-source software across AI, scientific computing, computer vision, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Current Focus
Artificial Intelligence
Building and applying ML systems to real research problems.
Scientific Computing
Numerical methods and tooling for research-grade software.
Cloud Native Infrastructure
Kubernetes-based platforms for reproducible research workloads.
Planetary Science
Processing and analyzing imagery from planetary bodies.
Featured Projects
PTIFF
An open, backward-compatible image standard for planetary science. Encapsulates orbital-geometric metadata (SPICE, camera models) and physical auxiliary rasters directly in the TIFF/BigTIFF container — with the C++23 reference library libptiff.
- C++23
- TIFF/BigTIFF
- Planetary Data Standard
luna-data-mare
An event-driven open-source microservice platform automating the ingestion, storage, and spatial query of planetary remote-sensing data. Plugin-based for the Moon, Mars, and Mercury (Go + Python), coordinated over Redpanda, with the luna-data-telescope browser client.
- Go
- Python
- Microservices
- Kubernetes
Phobos
A reproducible bootstrap platform for single-node Kubernetes (k3s) on ARM hardware. Provisions seven infrastructure services via a Helm chart chain — the local development base for luna-data-mare and a precursor to the Solar GitOps platform.
- Kubernetes
- k3s
- Helm
- Raspberry Pi
sfs
A fully differentiable shape-from-shading framework in JAX. Optimizes height fields directly with a differentiable Hapke reflectance model and incorporates LOLA DEMs as a geometric prior — improving lunar topography reconstruction from single LRO-NAC images.
- JAX
- Differentiable Physics
- Shape-from-Shading
- Planetary Science
Writing
Technical articles on AI, scientific computing, and infrastructure.
PTIFF — Planetary TIFF
An open, backward-compatible image standard for planetary science that encapsulates orbital-geometric metadata and physical auxiliary rasters directly in the TIFF/BigTIFF container.
luna-data-mare
An event-driven open-source platform for automatic ingestion, storage, and spatial query of planetary remote-sensing data across multiple bodies.
Phobos
A reproducible single-node Kubernetes bootstrap platform (k3s) on ARM hardware for developing cloud-native planetary-science software.
Differentiable Hapke Shape-from-Shading
A fully differentiable shape-from-shading framework in JAX for precise lunar topography reconstruction from single LRO-NAC images.
Open Source
Open source is how research software becomes reproducible and useful beyond a single project. I build and maintain tools in the open, and contribute back to the projects this work depends on.
Working on something related?
I'm open to collaboration on research software, open source, and cloud-native infrastructure projects.