project-words.txt

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ASSEM
 astrojs
 Atmel
 barebones
+Bitwarden
 Candian
 caperren
 CEOAS
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@ CONSERV
 Corwin
 dangerousthings
 Dechorionator
+dockerization
+dockerizing
 ebox
 fhhs
 flowbite
@@ -39,6 +42,7 @@ OSURC
 Perren
 Perren's
 Pixhawk
+Protocase
 pubpath
 RFID
 RSSI
@@ -50,7 +54,9 @@ ssds
 Starlink
 steller
 Steller
+Teamcenter
 timelapse
+triaging
 trivago
 Unstow
 uuidv

src/data/site-layout.ts

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ export const siteLayout: navLink[] = [
         path: "spacex",
         children: [
           {
-            enabled: false,
             navText: "Hardware Test Engineer I/II",
             path: "hardware-test-engineer-i-ii",
           },

src/pages/experience/osu-ceoas-ocean-mixing-group/robotic-oceanographic-surface-sampler.astro

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
     skills: [
       { item: "Git" },
       {
-        item: "Programming Languages",
+        item: "Programming",
         subItems: [
           { item: "Python 2/3" },
           { item: "Bash Shell Scripting" },

src/pages/experience/spacex/avionics-test-engineering-internship.astro

@@ -42,13 +42,18 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
     skills: [
       { item: "Git" },
       {
-        item: "Programming Languages",
+        item: "Programming",
         subItems: [
           { item: "Python 2/3" },
           { item: "Bash Shell Scripting" },
           { item: "Microsoft SQL" },
         ],
       },
+      {
+        item: "Methodologies",
+        subItems: [{ item: "Test Driven Development" }, { item: "Agile" }],
+      },
+
       {
         item: "Atlassian Suite",
         subItems: [

src/pages/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii.astro

@@ -1,16 +1,29 @@
 ---
-import Carousel from "@components/Media/CustomCarousel/CustomCarousel.astro";
-import Timeline from "@components/Timeline/Timeline.astro";
 import ExperienceLayout from "@layouts/ExperienceLayout.astro";
 
-import starlink_headquarters_selfie from "@assets/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii/starlink-headquarters-selfie.jpg";
+import H2 from "@components/H2.astro";
+import H3 from "@components/H3.astro";
+import InlineLink from "@components/InlineLink.astro";
+import Li from "@components/Li.astro";
+import Carousel from "@components/Media/CustomCarousel/CustomCarousel.astro";
+import PageGroup from "@components/PageGroup.astro";
+import Paragraph from "@components/Paragraph.astro";
+import Paragraphs from "@components/Paragraphs.astro";
+import SkillMatrix from "@components/SkillMatrix/SkillMatrix.astro";
+import Timeline from "@components/Timeline/Timeline.astro";
+import Ul from "@components/Ul.astro";
 
 import type { carouselGroup } from "@interfaces/image-carousel.ts";
+import type { categorySkills } from "@interfaces/skill-matrix.ts";
 import type { timelineEntry } from "@interfaces/timeline.ts";
 
+import five_year_patch from "@assets/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii/five-year-patch.jpg";
+import starlink_headquarters_selfie from "@assets/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii/starlink-headquarters-selfie.jpg";
+import starlink_patch from "@assets/experience/spacex/hardware-test-engineer-i-ii/starlink-patch.jpg";
+
 const headerCarouselGroup: carouselGroup = {
   animation: "slide",
-  images: [starlink_headquarters_selfie],
+  images: [starlink_headquarters_selfie, five_year_patch, starlink_patch],
 };
 
 const timeline: timelineEntry[] = [
@@ -43,56 +56,343 @@ const timeline: timelineEntry[] = [
       "Celebrated five and a half years of helping put thousands of satellites, and dozens of rockets, into orbit",
   },
 ];
+
+const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
+  {
+    category: "Software & Environments",
+    skills: [
+      {
+        item: "Version Control",
+        subItems: [{ item: "Git" }, { item: "Subversion" }],
+      },
+      {
+        item: "Programming",
+        subItems: [
+          {
+            item: "Languages",
+            subItems: [
+              { item: "Python 2/3" },
+              { item: "Bash Shell Scripting" },
+              { item: "High-Level Embedded C/C++ (Arduino/Teensy)" },
+              { item: "HTML" },
+              { item: "CSS" },
+              { item: "Typescript/Javascript" },
+            ],
+          },
+          {
+            item: "Databases",
+            subItems: [
+              { item: "Postgres" },
+              { item: "Microsoft SQL" },
+              { item: "MySQL" },
+            ],
+          },
+          { item: "DevOps", subItems: [{ item: "Ansible" }] },
+        ],
+      },
+      {
+        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" }],
+          },
+          { item: "Microsoft Windows" },
+        ],
+      },
+      {
+        item: "Applications",
+        subItems: [
+          {
+            item: "Atlassian",
+            subItems: [
+              { item: "Jira" },
+              { item: "Bitbucket" },
+              { item: "Confluence" },
+            ],
+          },
+          {
+            item: "Monitoring/Metrics",
+            subItems: [
+              { item: "Grafana" },
+              { item: "Sentry" },
+              { item: "OpsGenie" },
+            ],
+          },
+          {
+            item: "Secrets",
+            subItems: [{ item: "Bitwarden" }, { item: "Hashicorp Vault" }],
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    category: "Electrical",
+    skills: [
+      {
+        item: "Schematic & PCB Design",
+        subItems: [
+          { item: "Altium Designer" },
+          { item: "Mentor Graphics PADS" },
+        ],
+      },
+      {
+        item: "Electrical Diagnostics",
+        subItems: [
+          { item: "Multimeters" },
+          { item: "Oscilloscopes" },
+          { item: "Logic Analyzers" },
+          { item: "LCR Meters" },
+        ],
+      },
+      {
+        item: "Harnessing Fabrication",
+        subItems: [
+          { item: "DC Power & Signal" },
+          { item: "Low Frequency RF (<1GHz)" },
+        ],
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    category: "Mechanical",
+    skills: [
+      { item: "Siemens Teamcenter PLM" },
+      {
+        item: "3D Modeling",
+        subItems: [
+          { item: "Siemens NX" },
+
+          { item: "Protocase Designer" },
+          { item: "FreeCAD" },
+        ],
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    category: "Other",
+    skills: [
+      {
+        item: "Specialty Tests",
+        subItems: [
+          { item: "Highly Accelerated Life Testing" },
+          { item: "Thermal Vacuum Chamber Testing" },
+          { item: "Vibration Testing" },
+        ],
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+];
 ---
 
-<ExperienceLayout title="SpaceX - Hardware Test Engineer I/II">
+<ExperienceLayout
+  title="Hardware Test Engineer I/II"
+  subTitles={["Space Exploration Technologies Corporation"]}
+>
   <Carousel carouselGroup={headerCarouselGroup} />
-  <h2 class="my-4 font-bold md:text-2xl">Summary</h2>
+  <PageGroup>
-  <h3 class="my-4 font-bold md:text-lg">Timeline</h3>
+    <Fragment slot="header"><H2>Summary</H2></Fragment>
-  <Timeline timeline={timeline} />
+    <PageGroup>
-  <h3 class="my-4 font-bold md:text-lg">Key Takeaways</h3>
+      <Fragment slot="header"><H3>Timeline</H3></Fragment>
-  <ul class="list-inside list-disc">
+      <Timeline timeline={timeline} />
-    <li>
+    </PageGroup>
-      Created test systems which validated ~4500 Starlink satellite flight
+    <PageGroup>
-      computers, and ~4000 power boards
+      <Fragment slot="header"><H3>Key Takeaways</H3></Fragment>
-    </li>
+      <Ul>
-    <li>
+        <Li
-      Developed program-critical infrastructure that enabled efficient triage,
+          >Created test systems which validated ~4500 Starlink satellite flight
-      management, and tracking of hardware failures
+          computers, and ~4000 power boards</Li
-    </li>
+        >
-    <li>
+        <Li
-      Designed and deployed automated, unified, and containerized infrastructure
+          >Developed program-critical infrastructure that enabled efficient
-      to greatly increase application reliability and development speed
+          triage, management, tracking, and metrics of hardware failures</Li
-    </li>
+        >
-  </ul>
+        <Li
-  <h3 class="my-4 font-bold md:text-lg">Skills Used</h3>
+          >Designed and deployed automated, unified, and containerized
-  <div
+          infrastructure to greatly increase application reliability and
-    class="border-caperren-green relative grid grid-flow-row gap-6 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4"
+          development speed</Li
-  >
+        >
-    <div>
+        <Li
-      <div class="text-sm font-extrabold">Software</div>
+          >Provided on-call support for on-orbit hardware,
-      <hr class="text-caperren-green" />
+          satellite-test/components-test systems, and
-      <ul class="list-inside list-disc text-sm">
+          satellite-test/components-test infrastructure</Li
-        <li>Python</li>
+        >
-        <li>Test Driven Development</li>
+      </Ul>
-      </ul>
+    </PageGroup>
-    </div>
+    <SkillMatrix categorizedSkills={categorizedSkills} />
-    <div>
+  </PageGroup>
-      <div class="text-sm font-extrabold">Electrical</div>
+  <PageGroup>
-      <hr class="text-caperren-green" />
+    <Fragment slot="header"><H2>Details</H2></Fragment>
-    </div>
+    <PageGroup>
-    <div>
+      <Fragment slot="header"><H3>Starlink Test Engineering</H3></Fragment>
-      <div class="text-sm font-extrabold">Mechanical</div>
+      <Paragraphs>
-      <hr class="text-caperren-green" />
+        <Paragraph>
-    </div>
+          Starting at SpaceX, I'd joined the hardware test engineering team for
-    <div>
+          the Starlink program in Redmond, WA. With my first day being in early
-      <div class="text-sm font-extrabold">Other</div>
+          September of 2019, the V0.9 revision satellites had only just been
-      <hr class="text-caperren-green" />
+          shot into space a few months prior. This meant my start coincided with
-    </div>
+          earnest preparations to launch V1.0, as well as ramping production to
-  </div>
+          rates previously thought impossible for space industries. My initial
-
+          task at the company was simple; offload the current hardware test
-  <h2 class="my-4 font-bold md:text-2xl">Details By Team</h2>
+          engineer for flight computer in any way possible, as he was
-  <h3 class="my-4 font-bold md:text-lg">Starlink Hardware Test</h3>
+          significantly overloaded.
-  <h3 class="my-4 font-bold md:text-lg">Build Reliability Engineering</h3>
+        </Paragraph>
-  <h3 class="my-4 font-bold md:text-lg">Components Test Infrastructure</h3>
+        <Paragraph>
+          I put my all into this task, immediately taking over quite a few
+          production code debug and improvement tasks, as well as running EMI
+          compliance testing, while absorbing as much as I could about the
+          product, its test systems, and test procedures. During this time, I
+          was extremely happy to have already done a <InlineLink
+            href="/experience/spacex/avionics-test-engineering-internship"
+            >test engineering internship</InlineLink
+          > with the company, as it made ramping up much faster and easier than it
+          would have been otherwise. Around three months after joining the team, ownership
+          of these test systems were transferred to me in their entirety. What followed
+          was nearly three years of the kind of intensity you'd expect out of a company
+          like SpaceX, but with the unique addition of higher production rates than
+          anywhere else in the company, or space industry.
+        </Paragraph>
+        <Paragraph>
+          When I say I took ownership of flight computer test systems, I mean
+          this in its entirety, 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
+          configuration and tuning, DUT harness design, prototype DUT harness
+          fabrication, along with test software development to cover not only
+          production tests, but also more strenuous qualification tests which
+          often required their own custom rack design compared to their
+          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,
+          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
+          sending commands to recover where needed.
+        </Paragraph>
+        <Paragraph>
+          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
+          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
+          companies and I ended up having to temporarily take over test rack
+          hardware design, alongside permanently handling the software for
+          flight computer through the end of this overall phase at SpaceX. This
+          turned out to be the most intense period of time at the company for
+          me, with some of the longest hours and latest nights that I'd rather
+          not share the durations of. However, as with all the time previously,
+          I successfully delivered multiple test system derivations for power
+          board, alongside all the software for multiple of the next generation
+          of flight computer.
+        </Paragraph>
+      </Paragraphs>
+      <PageGroup>
+        <Fragment slot="header"><H3>Build Reliability Engineering</H3></Fragment
+        >
+        <Paragraphs>
+          <Paragraph>
+            In early 2022, I decided I was going to move in with my
+            long-distance partner down in Oregon. SpaceX is not normally known
+            for allowing remote work, but I floated the idea a few months before
+            my August deadline for leaving, just in case. My good friend, and
+            head of the build reliability engineering team at the time, also
+            proposed a project for me to work on that would enable fast triage
+            and disposition of hardware failures coming out of test. I'd
+            previously taught him some basic web development to get a prototype
+            version of the app up and running, but it was fast approaching its
+            usability limits and needed professional support. They approved me
+            to work on this for three months, with the stipulation that I came
+            in person for one week a month. Since it was going to be short term,
+            I agreed and began working on this website!
+          </Paragraph>
+          <Paragraph>
+            This level of web development was rather new to me, at the time, as
+            I'd always said I'd never become a full time web developer since
+            before even starting college. Still, that wasn't going to stop me,
+            and I quickly began making improvements. One thing SpaceX had
+            already taught me was that development velocity was paramount, and
+            that there should be as little friction as possible between changes
+            getting made, becoming validated, and then deployed. So, I started
+            by creating a fully automated development/staging/production devops
+            environment, and moved the application to docker with a RESTful
+            flask backend and Bootstrap frontend. After three months were up,
+            they decided to let me keep working remote so long as I still came
+            in a week a month. For the next year and a half, this tool grew and
+            improved, gaining hundreds of users a day both in and out of the
+            reliability team. It turned out that many features of my website
+            ended up providing a better experience than the ones developed by
+            SpaceX's core applications engineering team, at least for Starlink's
+            use-case. This did not go unnoticed, and that team ended up reaching
+            out to create an equivalent, and officially supported, first-party
+            tool in the SpaceX application ecosystem. They even created a small
+            team dedicated to its creation and maintenance. This also came at a
+            perfect time, as I was losing my ability to keep up with my custom
+            website as a solo developer. Oh, and did I mentioned I'd been
+            supporting satellite hardware test remotely for the latter nine
+            months at this time, as well?
+          </Paragraph>
+        </Paragraphs>
+      </PageGroup>
+      <PageGroup>
+        <Fragment slot="header"><H3>Components Test Engineering</H3></Fragment>
+        <Paragraphs>
+          <Paragraph>
+            In March of 2024, the team lead for components test software (the
+            components team being the parent group of satellite hardware test by
+            that point) reached out and asked me if I wanted to join a small two
+            person infrastructure team. Considering my remote nature, this made
+            a lot more sense than trying to continue supporting satellite
+            hardware tests, and I was going to be able to provide a lot of
+            experience with devops infrastructure and docker that could greatly
+            benefit the team. I agreed, and began working on dockerization and
+            unification of the team's tools into a monorepo. I also began
+            supporting a relatively new tool for running test software that the
+            team was developing, along with a small slew of miscellaneous tools
+            such as those to image and provision servers over PXE.
+          </Paragraph>
+          <Paragraph>
+            After dockerizing all the infrastructure and moving them into the
+            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
+            deploying was validated as thoroughly as possible in advance.
+          </Paragraph>
+          <Paragraph>
+            At the end of January 2025, I was notified by the company that my
+            remote work exception would no longer be valid as of April 4th. I
+            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.
+          </Paragraph>
+        </Paragraphs>
+      </PageGroup>
+    </PageGroup>
+  </PageGroup>
 </ExperienceLayout>

src/pages/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack.astro

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ---
-import Carousel from "@components/Media/CustomCarousel/CustomCarousel.astro";
 import HobbyLayout from "@layouts/HobbyLayout.astro";
 
+import Carousel from "@components/Media/CustomCarousel/CustomCarousel.astro";
+
 import type { carouselGroup } from "@interfaces/image-carousel.ts";
 
 import enclosure_front_pc_panel_open from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/enclosure-front-pc-panel-open.jpg";
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ import enclosure_left from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/enclosure-
 import enclosure_rear from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/enclosure-rear.jpg";
 import enclosure_right from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/enclosure-right.jpg";
 import enclosure_with_ups from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/enclosure-with-ups.jpg";
+import installed from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/installed.jpg";
 import power_adapter_tray_and_dc_dc from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/power-adapter-tray-and-dc-dc.jpg";
 import power_supply_closeup from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/power-supply-closeup.jpg";
 import power_supply_mounting_location from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/power-supply-mounting-location.jpg";
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@ import up_and_running from "@assets/hobby/homelab/offsite-backup-rack/up-and-run
 const headerCarouselGroup: carouselGroup = {
   animation: "slide",
   images: [
+    installed,
     enclosure_front,
     enclosure_front_pc_panel_open,
     enclosure_left,
@@ -38,6 +41,4 @@ const headerCarouselGroup: carouselGroup = {
 
 <HobbyLayout title="Homelab - Offsite Backup Rack">
   <Carousel carouselGroup={headerCarouselGroup} />
-
-  <!--<h2 class="font-bold md:text-2xl my-4">Prior Homelab</h2>-->
 </HobbyLayout>

src/pages/hobby/this-website.astro

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
         ],
       },
       {
-        item: "Programming Languages",
+        item: "Programming",
         subItems: [
           { item: "HTML" },
           { item: "CSS" },