About

Jose F Martinez Pedraza is a Flight Software Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with over 5 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working as a Web Developer at Optivon Inc, where he has been involved in the development of a web application that interacts with mobile applications to enable direct communication with the ground station manager. The web application is powered by the AngularJS framework, NodeJS server, and a lot of directives. Some of the features include live video streaming between mobile and web applications, users management using Parse database, and live data analysis. He has also implemented a custom made, high-level encryption library using native libraries for JavaScript (Web), Java (Android), and Objective-C (iOS). Prior to his current role, Jose worked as a Lead Game Developer at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, where he was part of an NSF-funded project that aimed to create a video game that gives real-world industrial engineering problems. He has also worked as a Flight Software Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he was responsible for the development of the Core Flight System (CFS), used in currently deployed satellites like MMS and GPM. He was involved in an Internal Research and Development (IRAD) project that provided a test bed for CFS development. The test bed consisted of over 10 Raspberry Pi computers simulating different spacecrafts running the CFS. He established inter-communication between the spacecrafts using the XBee RF modules and provided a ground system to command all spacecrafts at the same time. He has extensive experience in C programming language used by the CFS, Linux Bash scripting, Unix commands, and networking knowledge required for the management of telemetry packets between spacecrafts. Jose holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. He is proficient in software engineering, web development, mobile development, research, Javascript, iOS, Objective-C, and Python. He has excellent teamwork abilities, communication skills, and has learned different ways and techniques to satisfy the user with his product, like creating a simple user-interface and giving the player the ability to walk around and select objects on the scene to see its information.