Resume : Aaren Rice

Background

About

Website in progress! Currently working on my profile app. Engineer with Python experience performing data transformations to custom, full-stack ETL service. Learning React through Pluralsight's "Building Web Applications with React". Have a strong desire to move into the software development world to follow my interests.

Work Experience

Senior Systems Engineer - Software Development, The Aerospace Corporation
Aug, 2018 - Present
Develop and maintain analytical tools and services to perform modeling and simulation of DoD and NRO space systems
- Project lead for full-stack, custom ETL service to migrate data into ontology-backed standardized data model. Utilizes a Flask/Flask RESTX web framework, Neo4j database backend, and ReactJS-built frontend.
- Lead developer for modeling and simulation tool used to analyze expected availability of satellite constellations on a distributed computing system.
- Lead developer for internal Python tool to analyze large NxM Satellite/Ground Terminal RF interference events.
- Created ReactJS web interface for antenna library to help visualize gain patterns. Utilized Python FastAPI backend framework to help create OpenAPI documentation and expose endpoints to get antenna data.
Criticality Safety Engineer, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Aug, 2015 - Jul, 20182 years 11 months
Modeling and simulation of process-specific nuclear criticality scenarios to ensure safe processing configurations
Research Assistant, University of South Carolina
Aug, 2013 - May, 20151 year 9 months
Developed the South Carolina segment of BISON C++ code to analyze simulations of advanced reactor fuels

Skills

Python
JavaScript
ReactJS
Git
REST
Docker
SQL
Neo4j
Jenkins
Kubernetes

Education

Nuclear Engineering, Masters of Science, University of South Carolina
Aug, 2013 - May, 2015
4.0
Nuclear Engineering, Bachelors of Science, University of Tennessee
Aug, 2007 - May, 2012
3.0

Interests

Professional beach volleyball
Hiking
Python
React
Web development