Brian Kirkpatrick
Aerospace engineer with a passion for programming, an intrigue for information theory, and a soft spot for space!
Education
Harvey Mudd College
Work
Chief Mod/Sim Engineer
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GitHub Repositories
jellybean
JavaScript Experimental Lightweight Lex/Yacc-like tool, for quick language design and debugging
JavaScript • 1 star
WebThreads
WebWorker + WASM (Rust!) magic for multi-threaded, high-performance web applications
JavaScript
tox
Basic tic-tac-toe web application used to experiment with different deployment pipelines and target environments
JavaScript
Vengeance
ArtemisLib demo in the form of a "reverse-pacman" game from grad school
C++
rstdevblog
Development blog kit for RST-based articles and super-easy, super-automated usage
JavaScript
scrapese
Web scraping tools targeting systems engineering and technical data sources
Python
fxp
Figure/Axis paradigm plotting for easy in-browser, d3-based SVG plots in a MATLAB/MatPlotLib-like ontology
JavaScript
oyb
Oy vey! So many orbit models. Here's another one.
Python • 1 star
dyce
6-fold service-oriented architecture pattern for cloud application deployment
Dockerfile
pyroclast
Basic Python-based data server for exposing flat table and object hierarchy files via REST-ful queries
Python • 2 stars
impulse
Instantaneous web application starter kit
JavaScript
ArtemisLib
Interesting amateur engine project from grad school (more recent than "Artemis" repo)
C++
dts
Template for constructing containerized service-oriented architectures (SOAs) behind an Nginx reverse-proxy
HTML
fed
Fedora-based working environment via containerized home mount, as an alternative to other Windows shell environments
Dockerfile
Skills/Languages
Generalist, but with substantial experience in JavaScript; Python; and C++, to name the top 3
Currently hacking on
3d game dev, especially browser-based
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