I am a third year computer engineering student from Hamburg, NY. As a member of blue, I am exploring the practical implications of replacing persistent storage with cloud storage in smartphones, from file-system integration with the network to application-level programming practices.
My passion for distributed systems engineering extends beyond smartphones. I have led the design and implementation of the software system for the UB Nanosatellite Program’s flagship spacecraft that is due to be launched to low earth orbit by both NASA and the US Air Force in 2017. This 2-node distributed spacecraft network will demonstrate the ability for such a network to augment the United State’s ability to monitor space objects.
The parallels between distributed systems made up of smartphones and those made up of spacecraft are very interesting to me. In the future I would like to apply the distributed systems knowledge and practices of the smartphone industry to the spacecraft industry.
I worked as a software engineering intern at NASA throughout the summers of 2013 and 2014, and I plan to graduate with a BS in Computer Engineering in the spring of 2016. After graduation I have two hopes: to work somewhere where I can build cool things and to live somewhere where the weather doesn’t hurt.