Hi, my name is Dar.

I am currently a PhD Student at TU Braunschweig in Germany, studying chunks of debris thrown off by comet 67P while it was visited by the Rosetta Spacecraft.

Check out this 67P Dust Simulation for a small example.

Another example

Objects with h>16

I build simulation tools for orbital dynamics of millions to billions of objects in the solar system.
As a part of that work, I have open sourced the code here:
kete - solar system simulation tools


Until early 2025 I worked at CalTech, working a NASA project to build a telescope looking for dangerous 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. In my past, I have a lot of experience in building control software for large, complicated hardware systems, including testing and documentation.


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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