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bio
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Hi, I'm Kevin. I live in the boonies of Redmond, WA - about halfway between Seattle and Snoqualmie Pass.

I moved out here from Montana (go Bobcats!) and continue to be a powder snob while occasionally working on my trail-building chops.

After Hydrosat I took a couple of years off to mountain bike, ski and rest. These days I am back at it, building web apps with Claude (`racinglines <https://racinglines.bet>`_) and looking for my next move: big AI companies, sports trading desks, a seat as someone's quant, or any other +EV collaboration.

projects
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professional:

- `Hydrosat-Loft <https://spacenews.com/hydrosat-signs-with-loft-orbital/>`_ thermal infrared demonstration mission
- Amazon `Project Kuiper <https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/project-kuiper-announces-plans-and-launch-provider-for-prototype-satellites>`_ optical system design, I&T, and lab bring-up
- `Bluefield <https://spacenews.com/bluefield-adds-customers/>`_ field tests of methane sensing payload
- `Arkyd-6 <https://eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/a/arkyd-6>`_ payload I&T, launch, and operations
- `Hololens-2 <https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-hololens-2-headset/>`_ optical metrology, system integration, and test
- `SPIE profile <https://spie.org/profile/Kevin.Lalli-1853?SSO=1>`_ including proceedings

formative years:

- `Ralph Hutcheson Fellowship <https://www.montana.edu/news/11763/msu-offers-50-000-awards-for-physics-electrical-engineering-grads>`_, `Arkyd-100 design paper <./Arkyd-100_Professional_Paper_20160729.pdf>`_ (my final 3 credits!)
- Montana State University SPIE chapter secretary
- `Gaze Typer <./MSEM_502_Final_Project.pdf>`_, assistive communication device using eye-tracking hardware
- Montana Space Grant Consortium spectrometer competition (`slides <https://national.spacegrant.org/meetings/presentations/2010_Fall/7.pdf>`_, `team bio <https://spacegrant.montana.edu/iris-nsssc-teams11.html>`_)


contact
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If you'd like to connect, email `kevinlalli@pm.me <mailto:kevinlalli@pm.me>`_, find me on `GitHub <https://github.com/lalligagger>`_, or on LinkedIn (`/in/opticsinspace/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/opticsinspace/>`_).