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

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" },
+            ],
+          },
         ],
       },
     ],
@@ -141,15 +150,39 @@ const categorizedSkills: categorySkills[] = [
     skills: [
       {
         item: "Schematic & PCB Design",
+        subItems: [
+          {
+            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: "DC Low-Power & Signal" },
-          { item: "Low Frequency RF (<1GHz)" },
+          { 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[] = [
         </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
+          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[] = [
         </Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>
           As time progressed, I began to burn out and requested transfer to a
-          different product. Flight computer was a particularly intense product
+          different product. Flight computer was a particularly intense due to
-          due to having little to no overlap with the rest of the satellite
+          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
+            combining a unified set of Makefile interfaces, with automated runs
-            for pull requests and main branch merges. Application and server
+            via ansible from pull requests and main branch merges. Application
-            monitoring was also added via tools such as Sentry and Grafana,
+            and server monitoring was also added via tools such as Sentry and
-            which were piped into OpsGenie so the infra team could be pinged
+            Grafana, which were piped into OpsGenie so the infra team could be
-            during outages. Backups were also made of production databases
+            pinged during outages. Backups were also made of production
-            during deployments, with restore tooling that could also be used for
+            databases during deployments, with restore tooling that could be
-            emulating production data during staging, developments, and local
+            used for emulating production data during staging, development, and
-            deploys. Overall, these changes greatly improved the speed at which
+            local deploys. Overall, these changes greatly improved the speed at
-            the team could develop, and helped ensure that what we were
+            which the team could develop, and helped ensure that what we were
             deploying was validated as thoroughly as possible in advance.
           </Paragraph>
           <Paragraph>
@@ -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
+            average is two to three years, I'd say I did quite well, and am very
-            considered, and am very proud of what I managed to achieve with the
+            proud of what I managed to achieve with the company in that time! If
-            company in that time! If you'd like to know more, feel free to
+            you'd like to know more, feel free to contact me, and I'm happy to
-            contact me, and I'm happy to share what I'm allowed! This summary
+            share what I'm allowed! This summary was ultimately just the tip of
-            was ultimately just the tip of the iceberg.
+            the iceberg for an experience that made six years feel like twelve.
           </Paragraph>
         </Paragraphs>
       </PageGroup>