About me

I’ve got my PhD in Astronomy in 2008 studying the properties of dark matter halos in cosmological simulations such as the Millennium simulation.

Since then, I’ve worked on large astronomical projects, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

My participation in DES includes several projects, particularly Quick Reduce, a system for monitoring the quality of the Dark Energy camera images in real-time, and the creation of science-ready catalogs from the DES data releases.

In 2015, I moved to Tucson, AZ, to work at Vera C. Rubin Observatory as part of the Data Management team. At Rubin, we are building a unique wide-field optical telescope that will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The survey will collect about 500 petabytes of image data by observing the southern sky continuously over ten years starting in 2025. Rubin Observatory will also produce nearly instant alerts for objects that change in position or brightness in the sky every night.

My main project at Rubin Observatory is Sasquatch a service for recording, displaying, and alerting on Rubin’s engineering data. Sasquatch architecture is based on InfluxDB, a time-series database optimized for efficient storage and analysis of time series data, and Apache Kafka which is used as a write-ahead log to InfluxDB and for data replication between the observatory and our data facility at SLAC.

Please find me on Linkedin and check out my work on GitHub.