Dave Borncamp
Chief Software Architect at Ball Aerospace
Background
Education
- 2011 - BA Astronomy @ CU Boulder
- 2013 - AS Computer Programming and Geographic Information Systems @ FRCC
- 2016 - MS Computer Science @ Towson University
- 2022 - MS Space Resource @ Colorado School of Mines
Work
- 2010 - 2013: Southwest Research Institute
- Research on Pluto & Kuiper Belt Objects
- New Horizons mission support
- 2013 - 2017 Space Telescope Science Institute
- 2017 - 2021: Decipher Technology Studios
- Solutions Team Lead
- 2021 - present: Ball Aerospace
- Chief Software Architect
- Chimera and Gremlin Tech Lead
Ball
- Chief Software Architect for Non-Conventional Imaging
- Tech Lead
- Chimera
- Gremlin
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Decipher
- Solutions Team Lead
- Core Services
- ETL Pipeline
- NLP
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Functional Work
- Dark Analysis
- Geometric Distortion
- Flat Fields
- ACS Pipeline
Dark Analysis
Look at how individual pixels evolve over time
Geometric Distortion
With Vera Platais - ACS has pretty bad distortions...
Flat Fields
Polarizers are complicated but cool
ACS Reference File Pipeline
Maintain a piepline that REALLY needs to be rewritten
Science Work
- New Horizons
- Pluto
- Kuiper Belt Objects
- Cosmic Rays
- Frontier Fields
Pluto
Occultations of Pluto
New Horizons
Searched for new KBOs for it to look at after Pluto encounter
Cosmic Rays
Science with calibration images!
Frontier Fields
Frontier Fields pipeline team
