Mr. Aguilar built his first desktop computer when he was a teenager. Today, he manages the software program at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and serves as the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Discipline Expert in Software Engineering.

Mr. Aguilar has a masters degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a bachelors degree in computer science from California State University at Northridge.

Since joining NASA more than 5 years ago, Mr. Aguilar has worked on software development for spacecraft command and control systems, flight simulators, submersible robotics, nuclear reactor monitoring and control systems, and safety-critical embedded software. He was the science instrument flight software manager for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project, which involved the interface and integration of the JWST core flight software development at GSFC and the science instrument flight software applications developed externally by the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and EMS Technologies, the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin ATC, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/European Consortium.