lasp/basilisk
Nov 2024 – Oct 2025
10 Months active
Languages Used
C++LaTeXPythonRSTrstyamlCMakeC
Technical Skills
API RenamingC++Code ClarityCode CleanupCode ConsistencyCode Formatting
patrick kenneally
PROFILE
Patrick Kenneally
Patrick Kenneally modernized and maintained the lasp/basilisk repository, delivering robust aerospace software through deep refactoring, build system upgrades, and enhanced testing. He migrated legacy dependencies to modern libraries like spiceypy and Eigen, improved CI/CD pipelines with CMake and GitHub Actions, and standardized code style using C++ and Python. Patrick streamlined core modules for reliability, introduced float/double support in rigid body kinematics, and expanded test coverage with Google Test and Pytest. His work reduced technical debt, improved cross-platform compatibility, and enabled reproducible builds, resulting in a maintainable codebase that supports faster onboarding, safer releases, and scalable future development.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
80%Features
Repository Contributions
193Total
Bugs
14
Commits
193
Features
55
Lines of code
169,696
Activity Months10
Your Network
23 people
Work History
October 2025
34 Commits • 9 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for lasp/basilisk focused on delivering robust numerical tooling, improving test coverage, and stabilizing core interfaces. Highlights include enhancements to eigen support with clearer code and tests, updates to inertial3d and mrpRotation interfaces, an API rename to align module naming, expanded testing infrastructure with Google Test integration and test migrations, and targeted improvements to FilterStateVector handling.
34 Commits • 9 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for lasp/basilisk focused on delivering robust numerical tooling, improving test coverage, and stabilizing core interfaces. Highlights include enhancements to eigen support with clearer code and tests, updates to inertial3d and mrpRotation interfaces, an API rename to align module naming, expanded testing infrastructure with Google Test integration and test migrations, and targeted improvements to FilterStateVector handling.
October 2025
September 2025
17 Commits • 3 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 (lasp/basilisk) delivered three core initiatives that improve CI reliability, dependency management, and code quality. These changes accelerate feedback loops, reduce maintenance burden, and establish scalable foundations for cross-platform builds. No major bugs fixed this period; business value is increased through faster, more reliable releases and lower maintenance costs. Technologies demonstrated include GitHub Actions optimization, Python packaging and caching, CMake/vcpkg integration, and pre-commit-driven code hygiene.
September 2025
17 Commits • 3 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 (lasp/basilisk) delivered three core initiatives that improve CI reliability, dependency management, and code quality. These changes accelerate feedback loops, reduce maintenance burden, and establish scalable foundations for cross-platform builds. No major bugs fixed this period; business value is increased through faster, more reliable releases and lower maintenance costs. Technologies demonstrated include GitHub Actions optimization, Python packaging and caching, CMake/vcpkg integration, and pre-commit-driven code hygiene.
August 2025
9 Commits • 5 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for lasp/basilisk: Delivered key features improving code quality, performance, and maintainability, while addressing regressions from refactors. CI formatting standardization ensures consistent code style and faster review across the repository. Core module refactor and cleanup improved readability and maintainability by relocating constants and consolidating C declarations; included bug fixes such as removing a redundant assert in stepperMotorController and eliminating a mistakenly added file. Floating-point API wrappers and tests for rigidBodyKinematics provide safer float/double transitions and stronger numerics guarantees. SWIG updates add single-precision Eigen support for better numerical performance in bindings. Build configuration now targets C++23 across MSVC, Apple, and Linux, unlocking modern language features and potential performance improvements.
9 Commits • 5 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for lasp/basilisk: Delivered key features improving code quality, performance, and maintainability, while addressing regressions from refactors. CI formatting standardization ensures consistent code style and faster review across the repository. Core module refactor and cleanup improved readability and maintainability by relocating constants and consolidating C declarations; included bug fixes such as removing a redundant assert in stepperMotorController and eliminating a mistakenly added file. Floating-point API wrappers and tests for rigidBodyKinematics provide safer float/double transitions and stronger numerics guarantees. SWIG updates add single-precision Eigen support for better numerical performance in bindings. Build configuration now targets C++23 across MSVC, Apple, and Linux, unlocking modern language features and potential performance improvements.
August 2025
July 2025
15 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for lasp/basilisk focusing on reliability, stability, and build optimization. Delivered SunlineEphem data-linkage reliability improvements, stabilized runtime threading by rolling back SWIG changes and aligning Python compatibility, and performed a comprehensive codebase and build-system refactor to improve maintainability and build performance. These changes reduce runtime risk, streamline development, and enable faster releases.
July 2025
15 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for lasp/basilisk focusing on reliability, stability, and build optimization. Delivered SunlineEphem data-linkage reliability improvements, stabilized runtime threading by rolling back SWIG changes and aligning Python compatibility, and performed a comprehensive codebase and build-system refactor to improve maintainability and build performance. These changes reduce runtime risk, streamline development, and enable faster releases.
June 2025
31 Commits • 8 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025: Delivered a major modernization of lasp/basilisk with a complete Spiceypy migration, enhanced numeric type support, streamlined messaging, and strengthened CI/build pipelines. The work improves reliability, Python-version compatibility, and maintainability, enabling safer downstream integration and faster testing cycles. Key business/value outcomes: - Reduced runtime risks and maintenance cost by removing legacy pyswice, unifying ephemeris reads under spiceypy, and cleaning up legacy utilities. - Improved numerical flexibility and correctness with float-type support inRigidBodyKinematics, including round-trip conversions and template enhancements. - Simplified payload handling by removing zeroMsgPayload, reducing messaging surface area and related debugging effort. - Strengthened release pipelines and platform coverage with CI/workflow updates, Python version constraints (3.9 and 3.12), Dask pinning, and macOS OpenCL build tweaks. - Raised code quality and consistency through pre-commit cleanup, unused-variable fixes, and formatting updates.
31 Commits • 8 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025: Delivered a major modernization of lasp/basilisk with a complete Spiceypy migration, enhanced numeric type support, streamlined messaging, and strengthened CI/build pipelines. The work improves reliability, Python-version compatibility, and maintainability, enabling safer downstream integration and faster testing cycles. Key business/value outcomes: - Reduced runtime risks and maintenance cost by removing legacy pyswice, unifying ephemeris reads under spiceypy, and cleaning up legacy utilities. - Improved numerical flexibility and correctness with float-type support inRigidBodyKinematics, including round-trip conversions and template enhancements. - Simplified payload handling by removing zeroMsgPayload, reducing messaging surface area and related debugging effort. - Strengthened release pipelines and platform coverage with CI/workflow updates, Python version constraints (3.9 and 3.12), Dask pinning, and macOS OpenCL build tweaks. - Raised code quality and consistency through pre-commit cleanup, unused-variable fixes, and formatting updates.
June 2025
May 2025
14 Commits • 4 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for lasp/basilisk focusing on delivering a leaner, more reliable build/test/docs stack, with an emphasis on maintainability and faster onboarding for contributors. The work balanced CI/packaging modernization, test reliability improvements, and targeted refactors to reduce complexity in the numerical core, enabling faster and safer releases.
May 2025
14 Commits • 4 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for lasp/basilisk focusing on delivering a leaner, more reliable build/test/docs stack, with an emphasis on maintainability and faster onboarding for contributors. The work balanced CI/packaging modernization, test reliability improvements, and targeted refactors to reduce complexity in the numerical core, enabling faster and safer releases.
April 2025
40 Commits • 15 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly accomplishments for lasp/basilisk: Modernization and stabilization across the codebase, with concrete improvements in CI/build tooling, core refactor to Eigen and std::array, API safety, and enhanced testing. Highlights include pinning CI Ubuntu24 runner cmake to 3.28 with editable-mode install support, migrating to Eigen and consolidating internal arrays, enforcing invariants for control axes and thruster magnitudes, and refactoring payload types with clearer usage and error text. API surface cleanup included removing findMinimumNormForce and switching to unsigned numThrusters, along with encapsulation improvements. Testing was strengthened via a custom pytest_make_parametrize_id helper and updated scenarios. These changes reduce release risk, improve performance/maintainability, and enable faster, safer feature delivery.
40 Commits • 15 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly accomplishments for lasp/basilisk: Modernization and stabilization across the codebase, with concrete improvements in CI/build tooling, core refactor to Eigen and std::array, API safety, and enhanced testing. Highlights include pinning CI Ubuntu24 runner cmake to 3.28 with editable-mode install support, migrating to Eigen and consolidating internal arrays, enforcing invariants for control axes and thruster magnitudes, and refactoring payload types with clearer usage and error text. API surface cleanup included removing findMinimumNormForce and switching to unsigned numThrusters, along with encapsulation improvements. Testing was strengthened via a custom pytest_make_parametrize_id helper and updated scenarios. These changes reduce release risk, improve performance/maintainability, and enable faster, safer feature delivery.
April 2025
January 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025: Monthly work summary for lasp/basilisk focusing on maintainability, reliability, and dependency management improvements that enable simpler onboarding and reproducible builds.
January 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025: Monthly work summary for lasp/basilisk focusing on maintainability, reliability, and dependency management improvements that enable simpler onboarding and reproducible builds.
December 2024
10 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024Month: 2024-12 — lasp/basilisk deliverables focused on maintainability, stability, and code quality. Key work includes internal refactor and cleanup of FacetDragDynamicEffector with no external behavior changes, a regression fix for computeForceTorque that unblocked updateDragDir and plateDrag, and the introduction of a clang-format pre-commit hook with Google-style enforcement. These efforts reduce future maintenance overhead, minimize risk of regressions, and improve collaboration and onboarding.
10 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024Month: 2024-12 — lasp/basilisk deliverables focused on maintainability, stability, and code quality. Key work includes internal refactor and cleanup of FacetDragDynamicEffector with no external behavior changes, a regression fix for computeForceTorque that unblocked updateDragDir and plateDrag, and the introduction of a clang-format pre-commit hook with Google-style enforcement. These efforts reduce future maintenance overhead, minimize risk of regressions, and improve collaboration and onboarding.
December 2024
November 2024
21 Commits • 7 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 summary for lasp/basilisk: Delivered runtime safety checks, extensive codebase cleanup, and comprehensive naming refactors that reduce technical debt and improve maintainability. Implemented a dispersion variable callable check to prevent runtime misconfigurations, streamlined repo structure by removing redundant docs/directories, and executed a broad API/variable naming consistency refactor to enforce camelCase and reduce ambiguity. Additional threading and model naming cleanups, function name hygiene, and formatting consistency reduce onboarding friction and enable faster future delivery. Overall, these changes enhance reliability, readability, and developer velocity, aligning technical outcomes with business value.
November 2024
21 Commits • 7 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 summary for lasp/basilisk: Delivered runtime safety checks, extensive codebase cleanup, and comprehensive naming refactors that reduce technical debt and improve maintainability. Implemented a dispersion variable callable check to prevent runtime misconfigurations, streamlined repo structure by removing redundant docs/directories, and executed a broad API/variable naming consistency refactor to enforce camelCase and reduce ambiguity. Additional threading and model naming cleanups, function name hygiene, and formatting consistency reduce onboarding friction and enable faster future delivery. Overall, these changes enhance reliability, readability, and developer velocity, aligning technical outcomes with business value.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness95.4%
Maintainability95.8%
Architecture93.2%
Performance92.0%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
BashCC++CMakeGit IgnoreHLaTeXPythonRSTSWIG
Technical Skills
API RefactoringAPI RenamingAPI UpdatesAerospace EngineeringAerospace SoftwareAlgorithm DevelopmentAlgorithm ImplementationBuild AutomationBuild ConfigurationBuild SystemBuild System ConfigurationBuild System ManagementBuild SystemsCC Development
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