Years
25+
Victoria's Code
Software engineer._
Building reliable software across defense, finance, and healthcare.
Sectors
6
Build logs
4
Blog entries
28
Last entry
2026.08.24
Capability
What I do
AI
AI & Intelligent Systems
RAG, local LLMs, agentic workflows, and secure AI for air-gapped environments.
MC
Mission-Critical Software
High-reliability systems aligned with defense and aerospace standards.
ARCH
Architecture & Integration
Clean Architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and system-of-systems integration.
RT
Real-Time Platforms
Telemetry, GPS tracking, simulation systems, and distributed data pipelines.
Sector experience
Where the systems ran
| Sector | Work |
|---|---|
| Defense & Aerospace | Mission systems, tactical communications, geospatial data, and standards-based engineering — MOSA-aligned, including FACE conformance and ICD-based interface design |
| Finance | Enterprise applications, backend services, secure data processing, business-critical systems |
| Healthcare | Data systems, analytics, reporting, regulatory-aware software |
| Industrial Automation | Process control, real-time systems, plant operations |
| Real-Time Systems | GPS tracking, telemetry, simulation, event-driven applications |
| Consulting & Integration | Cross-domain solutions, rapid delivery, system modernization |
From the blog
Latest entries
Pulled straight from the posts folder — this list is never hand-edited.
2026.08.24
Whodunit: The Case of the Crashing Computer
An evening of pilot testing where everything kept crashing. The GPU was framed by a ghost, the AI had an alibi with receipts, and the real culprit was me — running every project at once on hardware I'd forgotten was finite. Also: the one-command triage tool this mess earned.
Latest 2026.08.15The EMERGENCY button that did nothing
A command came back REJECTED with no reason given. Chasing it down led me to a button labelled EMERGENCY that had never worked on that aircraft type — not broken, not disabled, just quietly incapable while looking exactly like a working control. The bug was one word in a list.
2026.08.14A number is not a measurement
The console said the drone was at 394. Four hundred what, measured from where, and as of when? A bare number on an operations screen is three questions pretending to be an answer. Today I shipped the unit, the reference frame, and the age — and a test caught me quietly widening a safety limit while converting between them.
2026.08.13Hardware first, AI later
The plan for a device-agnostic validation framework for autonomous systems. Starting where it matters: can we talk to a drone and listen to the spectrum? Simulation is running; the physical hardware goes on the bench next.
2026.08.11A Dead Drone That Looked Alive
This is the most important safety bug I've fixed on this project, and the scariest kind: the drone lost its link, and the console kept showing it flying. Frozen position, frozen battery — a calm, healthy-looking asset that was no longer talking to anyone. Silence has to look like silence.
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