Alston Michael Dsouza
Systems & Software Engineer | SD-Multi-WAN & Satellite Networking | In-Flight Connectivity Aero Dev | Data Analysis | System Design | Project Management/Lead |
- Role
- Software Engineer Mts (Member of Technical Staff) at Hughes
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alston Michael Dsouza
Innovative and results-driven Systems & Software Engineer with a strong record of…
Experience
Software Engineer Mts (Member of Technical Staff)
Aug 2023 — Present · Germantown, MD, US
Software Development)-Implemented enhancements and solved multiple Software Performance Report (SPR) fixes for multi-WAN failover and per-packet optimizations for Hughes ActiveTech\'s Active-WAN-QoS sub-system with C/Embedded-object-oriented-C, for Consumer (GEO + LTE) and In-Flight Connectivity Aero (GEO + LEO, Delta Airlines) Projects-Built improvements to RTT/handshake mean-ms measurement to inform target-rate and routing policies; enhanced trace logging and self-healing-Packaged 150+.c/.h into single binary; supported blue-green/canary deploys and KPI monitoring.(Lab Setup & Systems Testing)-Improved enhancements to brownout/blackout and packet-loss simulations scripts; validated primary-secondary failover and LXC reboot scenarios-Drove regression, performance, load, stress, sanity, smoke, and UAT test cycles; mapped tests to requirements coverage-Enhanced rollups (minute/hour/day/week/month), weighted means, and state-code parsing; verified Kafka + Avro + MongoDB propagation.(Design & Planning)-Shaped Customer360 V2 backend; recommended Redis caching for faster API aggregation; integrated beam weather, gateway, LAN/Wi-Fi stats-Authored rollback playbooks and release checklists; partnered with NOC/Quality/Churn task force on Tableau and Salesforce Lightning analytics-Co-created ASET (Python/Go): Built Python analytics labeling 800+ stats into actionable health tags; reduced triage time ≈25–30 to 5-7 minutes.(ActiveTech Site Evaluation tool, nicknamed Alston\'s Site Evaluation tool, short for ASET)-Gave recommendations and conducted Design planning for Dockerized and scheduled ASET across ~30K endpoints, and Aero-Flight Planes; exported hourly fleet health to Django dashboards.(Leadership/Project Management)Led Intern projects and code reviews, for Aero-Mobility test suite/debugging tools, Gitlab CI/CD build/testing automation for Aero.Presented RCA summaries and prevention recommendations to project leads, directors, and VPs.
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