# Joseph Na > Staff Software Engineer at Boeing Defense, Space & Security Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/josephna Built mission critical platforms and apps deployed with Kubernetes on the cloud. Integrated AI/ML features behind FastAPI, secure with SSO/TLS. Improved DX (CI/CD, observability, runbooks). Lead teams serving ~1,000 users. Former startup founder in medical and engineering tech. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Boeing Defense, Space & Security Jan 2025 – Present Leading development and architecture for space and defense projects including the SLS project. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Boeing Defense, Space & Security Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Building ML/AI manufacturing and analytics platforms on Kubernetes for U.S. defense (DoD/ITAR). ### Senior Software Engineer @ Boeing Defense, Space & Security Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States Designed software and data systems for fighter aircraft manufacturing and aerospace programs. ### Technical Founder @ Caskcade Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Founded and shipped software for construction (Slab Labs), engineering and healthcare (MdScribe); led product, engineering, and GTM. ### Senior Project Engineer @ Webcor Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States Developed cost-estimation, preconstruction, and contract generation tools for projects up to $1B. ### Project Engineer @ Webcor Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Project Engineer @ McShane Construction Company Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Coordinated multidisciplinary engineering on a $49M, 817k sq ft manufacturing facility. ### Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Computational analysis to minimize damage to infrastructure networks (U.S. Army sponsored). ### Cadet @ United States Air Force Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Air Force scholarship recipient for Civil Engineering. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Civil Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josephna --- Source: https://flows.cv/josephna JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/josephna/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12