Software Engineer · Jul 2023 — Sep 2025
NIWC Pacific
Two years at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific shipping production systems for the Department of Defense. The work spanned C++ imagery pipelines, C# vessel-tracking, and AWS automation. I held a Secret clearance (now inactive, eligible for reinstatement).
Stack
C++ · C# · Python · AWS (ECS, Boto3) · Docker
Numbers
40%
Deployment workload cut
Top 1%
Techboard selection
Secret
Clearance
Problem
- Aerial and submarine imagery had to be processed quickly and reliably enough for downstream operators to make threat-assessment decisions.
- Legacy deployment workflows were manual and error-prone; AIS data was high-volume and needed real-time visualization.
Approach
- Engineered C++ applications to process aerial and submarine imagery with detection algorithms that improved threat-assessment speed and accuracy.
- Built a server-side AIS parser in C# for high-volume vessel tracking, with protocol decoding and real-time visualization.
- Wrote Python automation (Boto3) to deploy containerized services to AWS ECS, cutting deployment workload by 40% and modernizing the legacy manual workflow.
- Restructured core middleware routing on a real-time monitoring system to improve responsiveness and fault tolerance.
Shipped
- Production C++ imagery detection pipeline.
- Real-time AIS vessel-tracking parser in C#.
- AWS ECS deployment automation (40% workload reduction).
- Selected for the 2024 Techboard (top 1% of personnel) to advise leadership on CI/CD strategy.
What's next
- Carrying the same shipping discipline into customer-facing product work.