Hi, my name is Dar, I'm a programmer/physicist.

I enjoy working on hard engineering, math, or physics-y problems wherever they may be.

I have a lot of experience in building control software for large, complicated hardware systems, including testing and documentation. Currently I work at CalTech, working a NASA project to build a telescope looking for dangerous asteroids. I build simulation and data processing tools which simulate many millions of asteroids. Previously I worked at SpaceX on the Starlink satellite constellation. I was a part of the team which handles the scheduling of ground and satellite antennas for ~1800 satellites.

I used to do mostly experimental work, starting with big lasers:

• Kilowatt IR Lasers - Working on really big IR lasers used in all sorts of applications, from welding, to pump diodes in telecom.
• Petawatt femto-second pulsed lasers - Developing pulsed lasers which will be used in future particle accelerators.

More recently (2016-2021) I worked in Quantum Computing / Information, transitioning from hardware to software:

• I worked on Superconducting Quantum Chips doing full stack development from hardware/FPGA interfaces up to Python, along with hardware development.
• Then I joined a startup company QB Labs, which I worked at until it was acquired by Keysight, working on compiler and benchmarking tools for quantum computers.

I can be contacted through email (see below), or found on Linkedin, or on Github.

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