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Software Architect
  • Ph.D., Computational Astrophysics
    2005, George Mason University

Senior software developer with Ph.D. in computational astrophysics. Software architect and code mechanic with experience in cloud, HPC, web and scientific software. Experienced in science research and science tool-building with space science experience at APL, NASA, NRL and universities (as well as teaching programming and remote sensing) with code released across multiple languages & systems (incl. Python, IDL). Cloud architect, creator of NASA science ops software, CubeSat flight code, Python machine learning on Github, and published researcher in heliophysics (CMEs & plasma) and interplanetary particles/dust, among others. Worked on 7 satellites and multiple teams, small team leader, loves new challenges.

Notable Awards and Leadership

Year(s) Description
2021 Vega (Constellation Award), APL
2014-2015 Faculty Researcher of the Year, Capitol Technology University.

Scholarly Publications

Vol. 55, Issue 3 (Heliophysics 2024 Decadal Whitepapers)

Bulletin of the AAS, 2023
Alex Antunes, Jon Vandegriff, Dmitriy Bekker, James Mason, Kiley Yeakel, Pontus Brandt, (2023), Vol. 55, Issue 3 (Heliophysics 2024 Decadal Whitepapers), Bulletin of the AAS

Vol. 55, Issue 3 (Heliophysics 2024 Decadal Whitepapers)

Bulletin of the AAS, 2023
Christopher Pankratz, Jake Strang, Jonathan T. Niehof, Alex Antunes, Jonathan Vandegriff, Laura Sandoval, Bryan Harter, Joey Mukherjee, Amy Rager, Brian Walsh, (2023), Vol. 55, Issue 3 (Heliophysics 2024 Decadal Whitepapers), Bulletin of the AAS