Hullo, I am Sean.

I really like:

• animals (esp birds for their accessibly apparent diversity),
• TRAINS,
• Japanese language (esp kanji paleography),
• space/astronomy (fictional (ds9 and recently SGA), and real (orion/sls, iss, hst, jwst)),
• music (I play drums/piano/guitar/ukulele to varying degrees of skill level (mostly not good)) (but also just really like listening to music),
• and video games :~)

I am a software engineer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, supporting all 3 (yes we have another one comin) telescopes, doing data API and web UI stuff for astronomers and science data processing pipelines. I also serve as a chair of Study Japanese in Arlington, a local non-profit advocating for Japanese language study and holding all sorts of events in our community :D

Before all that, I lived in Florida and did launch simulation software in the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center for NASA's Artemis Program, working on Artemis I and Artemis II. Making spaceship was very fun.

Idk what I am going to use this site for tbh, I have started and abandoned several blogs/etc over the years, and seeing as I have zero (0) plans to look for a new job any time soon, I don't need to waste this domain on what was basically a resume. Plus I like to write little blogs and stuff every now and then, so this can be a place for that.

I think having a place to put my thoughts, use up some halfcreative energy, and have something to show for it will do wonders for how I spend my time. ty for coming