Andrew Pawloski
Principal engineer and cloud practice lead with 10+ years of experience architecting large‑scale, high‑performance distributed systems for NASA science missions and other data‑intensive domains. Proven track record leading multidisciplinary teams, integrating cutting‑edge remote‑sensing data pipelines, and delivering secure, reliable cloud platforms that accelerate scientific discovery.
Highlights
- Cloud Architecture: Designed and implemented secure, scalable cloud systems supporting NASA missions and Earth science data processing
- Technical Leadership: Led multidisciplinary engineering teams across high-value projects and infrastructure initiatives
- Distributed Systems: Expert in designing high-performance data pipelines and processing systems for petabyte-scale operations
Experience
Principal Systems Engineer
- Technical lead of NASA cloud environment spanning hundreds of projects and missions across directorates.
Senior Systems Engineer
- Architecting and implementing cloud & distributed solutions across a variety of NASA missions.
Cloud Practice Lead, Senior DevOps Engineer
- Developing products and providing services across the Earth sciences domain.
- Technical lead of multiple high‑value software engineering efforts in remote‑sensing data pipelines and large‑scale cloud systems.
- Led R&D efforts using near‑real‑time satellite data and machine learning within remote‑sensing ecosystems.
- Designing, building & operating secure, high‑performance cloud systems.
Software Engineer
- Led technical design & implementation of NASA's next‑generation cloud platform for EOSDIS applications and processing.
- Managed day‑to‑day development and coordinated between engineers, system administrators, and security/compliance experts.
Sr. Software Engineer — Search & Distributed Computing
- Designed & supported concept‑aware search platform for world‑leading medical publication corpus.
- Improved distributed computation engines to significantly reduce execution times and hardware footprints.
- Simplified management of complex multi‑tier cluster environments through automation and deterministic configuration processes.
Software Engineer — Search & Distributed Computing
- Developed and supported components of distributed backend systems for natural language processing and information retrieval.
- Served on steering committee with architects, business analysts, and content experts to develop next‑generation content enrichment platform.