About — Asmaa Abdul-Amin, Software Engineer & Founder

Asmaa Abdul-Amin Founder · Engineer

Profile

A real engineer, not a project manager.

I'm a software engineer with 2+ years of experience building production software, REST APIs, data engineering and ETL pipelines, and database administration supporting NASA mission platforms at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. I work across the full software development lifecycle using Python, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, and cloud-native development practices.

At APL, I developed and maintained production web applications supporting 15+ active NASA and APL missions, engineered an automated ETL pipeline that converts requirements documents into a searchable, machine-readable knowledge base, and built database-driven administrative portals that let mission teams manage content without code changes. I've owned features end-to-end — from requirements gathering through deployment, maintenance, and iteration — often across multiple concurrent projects.

PantherByte is that same discipline, applied to the systems that run your business. When you hire me, you talk to the person writing the code. Nothing gets lost in translation.

Experience 2+ years production

Mission projects shipped 15+ NASA/APL

Based in Washington D.C.
(Metro Area)

Clearance D.o.D. Interim Secret (prior)

Technologies

Python PHP JavaScript React SQL HTML/CSS REST APIs Elasticsearch MySQL Bootstrap Linux Git Atlassian IBM DOORS Pandas TensorFlow Hugging Face OpenAI API Qiskit

Work with me GitHub

Experience

Building for NASA missions.

May 2024 – May 2026

Software Engineering Intern

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory · Space Exploration Sector (SOF-2)

Developed and maintained production web applications supporting 15+ active NASA and APL missions. Engineered a Python automated ETL pipeline converting .reqIF/.XML to JSON for indexing into Elasticsearch, powering a requirements intelligence pipeline. Built database export tools, admin portals, and public-facing sites across multiple mission platforms using PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Bootstrap, and DataTables. Planned and built the JHUAPL Ice Giants mission website, and modernized legacy NASA applications by migrating archived data into APL databases.

March 2023 – May 2024

Undergraduate Research Intern

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory · Research & Exploratory Development Department (R1N)

Deployed webpages for the NASA Dragonfly internal portal, streamlining access to mission resources. Developed machine learning models analyzing COVID-19 policies versus mortality to improve interpretability of public health data. Presented research at the NIST-PREP (Professional Research Experience Program) Showcase.

2021 – 2022

Freelancer

Self-directed

Developed the core skills behind my software development and data engineering work, and continue to extend them through self-directed study in machine learning, quantum computing, and DevOps.

ML/AI Algorithmic trading Quantitative finance

Selected projects

Shipped work.

A sample of mission platforms and systems built at APL and independently.

These mission platforms were built as part of the founder's role at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. NASA and JHUAPL are not PantherByte or BLKPVNTHR LLC clients and do not endorse PantherByte. Mission names, logos, and screenshots remain the property of their respective owners.