diff --git a/project-words.txt b/project-words.txt
index a69b8f0..9b7cbc7 100644
--- a/project-words.txt
+++ b/project-words.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ iceops
ITAR
Jetson
KFSK
+Labjack
leconte
Loctite
luxon
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ offroad
Onshape
OSSM
OSURC
+Passthroughs
Perren
Perren's
Pixhawk
@@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ SARL
Shuttlebox
sinnhuber
sitemapindex
+Smartsheet
ssds
Starlink
steller
@@ -62,5 +65,6 @@ Unstow
uuidv
vaapi
vitest
+Waterjet
Zebrafish
zscan
diff --git a/src/pages/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii.astro b/src/pages/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii.astro
index 28d2c89..af0d4a6 100644
--- a/src/pages/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii.astro
+++ b/src/pages/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii.astro
@@ -87,24 +87,26 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
{ item: "MySQL" },
],
},
- { item: "DevOps", subItems: [{ item: "Ansible" }] },
+ {
+ item: "DevOps",
+ subItems: [
+ { item: "Docker" },
+ { item: "Ansible" },
+ { item: "Kubernetes" },
+ ],
+ },
],
},
{
item: "Methodologies",
subItems: [{ item: "Test Driven Development" }, { item: "Agile" }],
},
-
- {
- item: "Automation",
- subItems: [{ item: "NI MAX/VISA" }, { item: "RESTful APIs" }],
- },
{
item: "Operating Systems",
subItems: [
{
item: "Linux",
- subItems: [{ item: "Centos" }, { item: "Ubuntu" }, { item: "WSL" }],
+ subItems: [{ item: "Centos" }, { item: "Ubuntu" }],
},
{ item: "Microsoft Windows" },
],
@@ -132,6 +134,13 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
item: "Secrets",
subItems: [{ item: "Bitwarden" }, { item: "Hashicorp Vault" }],
},
+ {
+ item: "Other",
+ subItems: [
+ { item: "Microsoft Office Suite" },
+ { item: "Smartsheet" },
+ ],
+ },
],
},
],
@@ -142,14 +151,38 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
{
item: "Schematic & PCB Design",
subItems: [
- { item: "Altium Designer" },
- { item: "Mentor Graphics PADS" },
+ {
+ item: "Software",
+ subItems: [
+ { item: "Altium Designer" },
+ { item: "Mentor Graphics PADS" },
+ ],
+ },
+ {
+ item: "PCB Features",
+ subItems: [
+ { item: "Multi-layer (up to 16)" },
+ { item: "Impedance Controlled Designs" },
+ { item: "High Power Designs" },
+ { item: "Power Simulation" },
+ ],
+ },
+ {
+ item: "Manufacturing",
+ subItems: [
+ { item: "Gerber Export" },
+ { item: "BOM Management" },
+ { item: "Board-House Assembly" },
+ { item: "In-House Assembly" },
+ ],
+ },
],
},
{
item: "Electrical Diagnostics",
subItems: [
{ item: "Multimeters" },
+ { item: "Electronic Loads" },
{ item: "Oscilloscopes" },
{ item: "Logic Analyzers" },
{ item: "LCR Meters" },
@@ -158,8 +191,21 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
{
item: "Harnessing Fabrication",
subItems: [
- { item: "DC Power & Signal" },
- { item: "Low Frequency RF (<1GHz)" },
+ { item: "DC Low-Power & Signal" },
+ { item: "DC High-Power" },
+ { item: "Sub-Microwave RF" },
+ { item: "Vacuum Rated Harnesses" },
+ { item: "Vacuum Chamber Harness Passthroughs" },
+ ],
+ },
+ {
+ item: "Test Rack Equipment",
+ subItems: [
+ { item: "Custom Fixture Design/Fabrication" },
+ { item: "Single/Bi-Directional Power Supplies" },
+ { item: "Electronic Loads" },
+ { item: "NI Test Hardware" },
+ { item: "Labjack" },
],
},
],
@@ -177,6 +223,16 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
{ item: "FreeCAD" },
],
},
+ {
+ item: "Fabrication",
+ subItems: [
+ { item: "Laser Cutting" },
+ { item: "3D Printing" },
+ { item: "CNC" },
+ { item: "Waterjet" },
+ { item: "Hand Tools" },
+ ],
+ },
],
},
{
@@ -264,7 +320,7 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
When I say I took ownership of flight computer test systems, I mean
- this in its entirety, and specifically a multi-disciplinary sense. I
+ this very literally, and specifically a multi-disciplinary sense. I
handled high-level test rack designs, purchasing, test fixture
enclosure design, test fixture PCB design, test fixture firmware
development, test rack networking configuration, test rack server
@@ -275,7 +331,7 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
production counterparts. This barely scratches the surface in reality,
and doesn't include the countless nights on the production floor,
personally running hundreds of boards through functional and
- environment testing, slowly and consistently improving the quality,
+ environmental testing, slowly and consistently improving the quality,
rate, and coverage of the tests. It also doesn't include the whole
year where I was on-call 24/7 for a full week, every other week,
triaging on-orbit alerts for flight computer, reviewing data, and
@@ -283,8 +339,8 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
As time progressed, I began to burn out and requested transfer to a
- different product. Flight computer was a particularly intense product
- due to having little to no overlap with the rest of the satellite
+ different product. Flight computer was a particularly intense due to
+ having little-to-no overlap with the rest of the satellite
sub-systems, and being doubly critical functionality-wise to satellite
operation. I was given a new test system for power boards, but due to
unfortunate timing, the new owner for flight computer changed
@@ -368,15 +424,15 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
monorepo, my next push was to improve velocity and reliability by
adding automated build, test, and deploy tasks for new development,
staging, and production environments across them all. I did this by
- combining a unified set of Makefile interfaces, and run via ansible
- for pull requests and main branch merges. Application and server
- monitoring was also added via tools such as Sentry and Grafana,
- which were piped into OpsGenie so the infra team could be pinged
- during outages. Backups were also made of production databases
- during deployments, with restore tooling that could also be used for
- emulating production data during staging, developments, and local
- deploys. Overall, these changes greatly improved the speed at which
- the team could develop, and helped ensure that what we were
+ combining a unified set of Makefile interfaces, with automated runs
+ via ansible from pull requests and main branch merges. Application
+ and server monitoring was also added via tools such as Sentry and
+ Grafana, which were piped into OpsGenie so the infra team could be
+ pinged during outages. Backups were also made of production
+ databases during deployments, with restore tooling that could be
+ used for emulating production data during staging, development, and
+ local deploys. Overall, these changes greatly improved the speed at
+ which the team could develop, and helped ensure that what we were
deploying was validated as thoroughly as possible in advance.
@@ -385,11 +441,11 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
was now living in northern Washington state and close to a two hour
drive, each way, from the closest SpaceX facility. I therefore opted
to quit after roughly six years with them in total. Considering the
- average is two to three years, I'd say I did quite well, all things
- considered, and am very proud of what I managed to achieve with the
- company in that time! If you'd like to know more, feel free to
- contact me, and I'm happy to share what I'm allowed! This summary
- was ultimately just the tip of the iceberg.
+ average is two to three years, I'd say I did quite well, and am very
+ proud of what I managed to achieve with the company in that time! If
+ you'd like to know more, feel free to contact me, and I'm happy to
+ share what I'm allowed! This summary was ultimately just the tip of
+ the iceberg for an experience that made six years feel like twelve.