Keith Miquela

NASA Kennedy Space Center

Software Engineer Intern — Spaceport Command & Control

At NASA Kennedy Space Center, I worked on software supporting engineering analysis for launch systems.

I developed a telemetry processing system capable of identifying the appropriate demultiplexing path from thousands of possible configurations based on engineer requests. I also implemented search and processing logic for locating requested telemetry inside complex multiplexed data streams.

On the application side, I built an interface for requesting and analyzing telemetry and integrated the system into an existing engineering analysis platform.

Working at Kennedy gave me experience contributing to a large, mission-focused engineering environment where software reliability and technical understanding directly matter.

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L3Harris Technologies

Software Engineer Intern — Positioning, Navigation and Timing

At L3Harris, I worked on infrastructure and deployment automation for a critical Positioning, Navigation and Timing software product.

I developed modular Ansible automation used to provision the product across 18 Linux installations. The automated workflow reduced an environment setup process that previously took approximately one to three months to roughly two to three hours.

I also developed and validated the automation inside a multi-node virtual environment and worked with approximately 680 requirements while documenting infrastructure, dependencies, and deployment workflows.

The experience gave me a much stronger appreciation for infrastructure engineering and for the amount of work required to make complex software reproducible and deployable.

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Rutgers University Office of Information Technology

Software Developer

At Rutgers OIT, I worked on an enterprise DocuSign analytics platform used across more than 20 university departments.

I owned work across system design, relational databases, REST APIs, authentication, and deployment. I developed a webhook-driven event pipeline that reduced unnecessary downstream API requests and built a database abstraction layer supporting Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.

I also containerized and deployed the application using Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift, creating reproducible environments across development, staging, and production.

This role gave me one of my first opportunities to own significant parts of a production application from architecture through deployment.