About
Learn to build.
Build to explore.
RedMars exists to help future spaceflight professionals turn knowledge into practice, practice into evidence, and evidence into readiness.
Founder, RedMars
Jake Brown, MSc
Founder Autobiography
Training systems, simulation architecture, and spaceflight operations practice.
Jake Brown founded RedMars to connect spaceflight learning, simulation, mission operations practice, and competency evidence into one practical development path.
His background spans advanced training systems, simulation software, hardware and software integration, mission operations training, and distributed software engineering.
Before building RedMars, Jake worked across spaceflight training and simulation roles, enterprise software engineering, and military aviation.
Prior employers and schools are included as biographical background only. No endorsement, partnership, or approval is implied.
Why RedMars exists.
Spaceflight needs a clearer bridge between education, technical practice, mission operations, and professional evidence. RedMars is building that bridge through Portal infrastructure and the STAR readiness framework.
Experience
Blue Origin
Advanced training hardware and applications, lunar mission operations training simulation, New Shepard simulator management, and simulation software development.
Optimizely
Staff and senior software engineering for production software systems.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Software engineering roles progressing from associate to senior software engineer.
Skyline Communications
Systems development for technical communication and software systems.
Canadian Armed Forces
Pilot experience before moving deeper into software, systems, and spaceflight training.
Education
Florida Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Space Systems, 2017-2020.
Carleton University
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours), Computer and Internet Security, 2012-2016.
Focus Areas
Values