# Waylon Peng

> Ground Software Engineer @ Space Sciences Lab

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/waylon

Ground Systems Engineer at the Space Sciences Lab at UC Berkeley. BS in Computer Science and BA in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Space Sciences Laboratory
Jan 2023 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States
As a Ground Software Engineer in the Mission Operations group at SSL, I write the software that ensures our operators have the awareness and insight they need for our mission-critical ops. I designed and developed a high-performance distributed data pipeline for spacecraft telemetry using NATS and Docker Swarm to enable real-time operation and time series analysis. I also develop internal tooling to support critical operations for the Carruthers Geocoronal Observatory, ESCAPADE, COSI, THEMIS, and NuSTAR missions.

### Security Engineer @ Nuro
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Developed and implemented security requirements for autonomous vehicle systems. Designed and developed embedded software for intrusion detection on realtime operating systems and automotive communication buses.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
Performed analysis of malware and vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
As an intern at Google, I created methodologies to identify mutexes in a network topology modeling service. I then designed and implemented a full-stack data visualization dashboard using Angular to display these mutexes, and improved performance of existing backend queries by 50x.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas
As an intern at Google, I designed procedures for analyzing string assets in Google Play services binaries, then trained a machine learning model to predict translated string sizes in these binaries. When this was completed, I integrated my model into size tracking tooling for Google Play services developers.

### Instructor @ Mindspark Summer
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, California
As an instructor for the Introduction to Java class, I taught middle school students introductory Java using the Eclipse IDE, and I taught middle and high school students game design principles using the Processing library.

### Intern @ Naval Postgraduate School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Monterey, California
As an intern working under the ASEE's SEAP program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, I designed procedures to manufacture and dope titania nanotubes to be used in photoelectrocatalytic cells. In addition, I constructed several apparatus to characterize the properties of the fabricated nanotube arrays, and I compiled, analyzed, and presented experimental results at the end of the apprenticeship program.

### Intern @ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area
As an intern at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, I created CUDA models of human cardiac cells to be run on university GPU clusters. Using these models, I simulated and characterized the bioelectrochemical conditions found in Long Q-T Syndrome patients, and presented my findings to university faculty.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics Double Major
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### Mission San Jose High School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/waylonpeng
- Website: https://www.waylon.sh

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Last updated: 2026-03-20