Victor Pagan
Melbourne
Summary
Senior software engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and enterprise platforms. Strong background in microservices, messaging systems, data pipelines, APIs, CI/CD,
and observability. Proven technical leader with experience owning architecture, mentoring engineers, and delivering mission-critical systems in regulated, high-reliability environments. Experienced in translating complex operational
workflows into scalable, production-grade software.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Specialist, Software Engineer | Mission Planning Tool (MPT)
L3Harris Technologies
09.2025 - Current
- Analyzed and provided information on spacecraft resources, objective, and constraints in order to collect data from orbiting satellites.
- Worked with Systems and Aerospace engineers on technical issues concerning the development of spacecraft and satellites.
- Simulated communications systems, subsystems, and algorithms for satellite communications networks.
- Designed software solutions and contributed to software architecture designs for the collection of data from orbiting satellites.
Sr Specialist, Software Engineer | Electronic Warfare Simulation
L3Harris Technologies
06.2025 - 11.2025
- Developed and deployed a comprehensive radar emitter signature catalog supporting Electronic Warfare (EW) simulation and analysis.
- Parsed and structured real-world emitter data using Python, automating ingestion and transformation pipelines.
- Designed and normalized PostgreSQL schema to store and index emitter characteristics (e.g., PRI, PW, frequency, and scan rate) for efficient retrieval and scenario simulation.
- Integrated AI models to detect and classify masking, deceptive emissions, and counter-EW signatures in real-time simulation environments.
- Built a tagging and alerting framework that identified spoofing, jamming, and signal masking using behavioral pattern recognition and statistical deviation tracking.
- Enabled simulation-based testing of countermeasure effectiveness and improved decision support for EW operational planning.
Sr Specialist, Software Engineer AI/ML
L3Harris Technologies
01.2025 - 11.2025
- Designed and deployed a secure, local instance of Danswer, an open-source RAG-based AI assistant platform, to centralize institutional knowledge.
- Developed a Lesson Learned Knowledge Base by converting structured Excel datasets into semantically searchable Markdown files integrated with Danswer's embedding engine.
- Implemented anti-hallucination system prompts and contextual answer constraints to ensure traceable, document-sourced responses only.
- Assisted in the creation of scalable ingestion scripts for automated document processing and regular updates of engineering lessons learned.
Tech Lead, Sr Specialist, Software Engineer
L3Harris Technologies
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Led a cross-functional team of developers and data scientists, to design, develop, and deploy an Enhanced Metrics App for Jira and Bitbucket.
- Conducted regular team meetings, code reviews, and sprint planning sessions to ensure timely delivery of features and adherence to best practices.
- Architected the app infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and security.
- Implemented advanced data analytics features, providing users with actionable insights and visualizations of their Jira and Bitbucket data.
- Integrated with Jira and Bitbucket APIs to pull data and used technologies like Python, SoapUI, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Established automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to maintain code quality and streamline deployments.
Sr Specialist, Software Engineer | SW-Image Processing
L3Harris Technologies
07.2023 - 01.2024
- Worked with Hydra a sensor-neutral, service-oriented architecture (SOA) providing workflow management capabilities and solutions, which are exposed to users via web-based inter-operable applications, coupled with core back-end processing and agile workflow configuration.
- Configured a DMS hot folder and ingest files via IOE REST API - Wrote IOE Pre-Processing rule that will trigger on ingest.
- Wrote IOE script that will invoke on ingest.
- Created IOE mapping via the REST API that will execute on ingest.
Principal Software Engineer | Data Processing
Northrop Grumman
08.2019 - 09.2022
- Designed and developed web application software for data management, data processing, and system configuration within multi-domain, multi-platform system integration laboratories for B-21 Raider program.
- Analyzed and interpreted formal and informal customer requirements and generated corresponding lower-level requirements that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
- Created innovative technical designs in compliance with established requirements.
- Built high-quality, fully performing software in compliance with coding standards and technical design.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and implement software quality improvement initiatives.
- Provided technical leadership and guidance to the software development team in order to ensure the successful delivery of projects and meet customer expectations.
Software Engineer Sr. | Simulation Training Support
Lockheed Martin
07.2017 - 05.2019
- - Software development within a team-oriented environment.
- - Perform software development activity in support of a US Army simulation training Support for Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability (JLCCTC).
- - Develop new capabilities for the application, including web-based interfaces, and support the integration with the larger software development team.
- - Support both in-plant testing and exercises on an occasional basis in the field.
- - Follow a structured software development process on an Agile environment.
- - Code and assist in development of new services and interfaces following a documented Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
- - Support the team by completing application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
Software Engineer | Logistics Data Management (LDM)
Lockheed Martin
11.2014 - 07.2017
- Worked with Logistics Data Manager (LDM) TeamCenter Suite on the JSF F-35 Program utilizing JAVA for front-end and web interfaces with a UNIX back-end server using C.
- Gathered and analyzed requirements, designed and developed customized software for Logistics Data Manager (LDM) applications.
- Performed unit and integration testing, supported production deployment, created required documentation, and performed other related activities as directed.
- Designed, developed, documented, tested, and debugged software that contained logical and mathematical solutions to business/mission problems.
- Corrected program errors, prepared operating instructions, compiled documentation of program development, and analyzed system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.
Software Developer
CGI
05.2012 - 11.2014
- Designed and developed Web-based applications by setting expectations and features priorities throughout development life cycle; determining design methodologies and tool sets; completing programming using languages and software products; designing and conducting tests.
- Recommended system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.
- Developed applications by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings, troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
- Supported users by developing documentation and assistance tools Updated job knowledge by researching new internet/intranet technologies and software products; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
- Enhanced organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Education
Bachelor - Software Engineering & Database Design
Texas A&M University–Central Texas
01.2011
Associate - General Studies
Central Texas College
01.2010
Associate - Biomedical Engineering
Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico-Recinto de Ponce
01.2001
Skills
- Programming languages: Python, Java, C#, SQL
- Distributed Systems: Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, Messaging (RabbitMQ)
- Platforms: REST APIs, Data Pipelines,
- DevOps: CI/CD, Git, Automated Testing
- Observability: Monitoring, Alerting, Metrics
- Database: SQL, Mongo, PostgreSQL, S3
- Architecture: Scalable System Design, Reliability Engineering
- Leadership: Technical Lead, Mentorship, Design Reviews
Certification
Shaping up with Angular.js
Languages
Spanish
English
Timeline
Sr Specialist, Software Engineer | Mission Planning Tool (MPT)
L3Harris Technologies
09.2025 - Current
Sr Specialist, Software Engineer | Electronic Warfare Simulation
L3Harris Technologies
06.2025 - 11.2025
Sr Specialist, Software Engineer AI/ML
L3Harris Technologies
01.2025 - 11.2025
Tech Lead, Sr Specialist, Software Engineer
L3Harris Technologies
01.2024 - 01.2025
Sr Specialist, Software Engineer | SW-Image Processing
L3Harris Technologies
07.2023 - 01.2024
Principal Software Engineer | Data Processing
Northrop Grumman
08.2019 - 09.2022
Software Engineer Sr. | Simulation Training Support
Lockheed Martin
07.2017 - 05.2019
Software Engineer | Logistics Data Management (LDM)
Lockheed Martin
11.2014 - 07.2017
Software Developer
CGI
05.2012 - 11.2014
Associate - General Studies
Central Texas College
Associate - Biomedical Engineering
Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico-Recinto de Ponce
Bachelor - Software Engineering & Database Design
Texas A&M University–Central Texas