Frank Palmisano
Forward Deployed Engineer | Software Engineer
I build practical software solutions for complex, ambiguous problems across AI automation, web applications, systems integration, and mission-critical aerospace environments. My background includes six years supporting NASA ISS and Orion/Artemis programs at Honeywell, along with commercial software automation, CI/CD engineering, and modern AI-agent development.
About
I am a software engineer focused on turning difficult technical requirements into working solutions. I have experience debugging undocumented embedded systems, integrating software with flight-representative hardware, building automation frameworks, improving deployment pipelines, and presenting new engineering tools to technical leaders. I enjoy work that requires learning unfamiliar systems quickly, identifying the real problem, and owning a solution from investigation through implementation.
Featured Projects
AI Job-Matching & Workflow Agent
Claude + Playwright MCP
Built a locally operated AI agent that researches opportunities across the web, evaluates fit against structured criteria, ranks results, navigates multi-step browser workflows, tracks state to avoid duplicate processing, and produces reviewable reports. The project uses custom prompts, browser automation, and human-in-the-loop controls.
YouTube Transcript Web Application
TypeScript + React + Next.js + Vercel + Redis
Designed and deployed a customer-facing web application that accepts a YouTube URL, retrieves transcript data through an external service, and returns the transcript through a clean web interface. The application was publicly deployed on Vercel and received approximately 100 initial visits through organic Reddit traffic.
Mission-Critical Systems Engineering
NASA ISS + Orion/Artemis | Honeywell Aerospace
Supported integrated aerospace systems across embedded software, simulation, and flight-representative hardware. Diagnosed an undocumented Artemis display-unit issue by tracing behavior through embedded code and test software, locating the underlying defect, correcting related test logic, and unblocking system testing.
Technical Focus
Languages
- C#
- .NET
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- SQL
- C/C++
Web & AI
- React
- Next.js
- Claude Code
- Playwright MCP
- AI Agents
Systems & Delivery
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Linux
- Simics
- LabVIEW
- Systems integration
- Embedded debugging
- Root-cause analysis