Erik Karlsson

Software Engineering Manager

Terran Orbital Corporation · Irvine, California

Ground Software Engineer

Terran Orbital Corporation · Irvine, California

Software Systems Engineer

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Pasadena, California

• Flight software for the Europa Clipper mission.
• Enterprise software development for OpenMBEE, the open source model-based systems engineering platform.
• Model-based systems engineering for multiple projects, plus automation and integration software.

Software and Computing Systems Undergraduate Student

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Pasadena, California

• Academic part-time in the Ground System Architecture and Systems Engineering group, building software infrastructure and client-side tools for the MBSE initiative.
• Primary developer on the Model Management System back end: Java web services, PostgreSQL, and Python deployment scripts. Led software design, coding standards, verification, and configuration management.
• Built a Robot Framework test suite for JSON-represented models with HTML reports piped into test management; extended SaltStack with a module for deploying and testing to cloud servers; containerized the application with Docker.

Software Intern

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Pasadena, California

• Web services for the View Editor client against SysML model data stored in Alfresco.
• Nightly build, test, and report pipeline with Jenkins, Docker, and Robot Framework; end-to-end tests across MDK, MMS, and View Editor; Protractor tests for the AngularJS app.

Intern, Launch Systems Planning Office

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Pasadena, California

• Launch system integration and planning support for JPL projects requiring launch services.

Founder and Lead Software Engineer

Nano Nimbus · Orange County, California

• Mobile applications for Android and iOS.
• Automation and analytics software for real estate investing; machine learning bots for cryptocurrency market patterns.

Computer Science and Software Engineering Tutor

Wyzant

Computer Lab Lead

Saddleback College Computer Science · Mission Viejo, California

• Managed and scheduled lab aides and mentored students through debugging their own code.

Mentor Lead

Mathobotix

• STEM mentoring; led other mentors and ran monthly build nights.

University of California, Irvine

B.S. Computer Science, with a focus on theory, algorithms, and machine learning

Saddleback College

A.A.S. Computer Science. Bridge to Engineering program, Physics Club officer, committee chair for the Society of American Military Engineers student chapter

Universal Technical Institute

Certificate in Automotive Repair, Ford specialization

Design and Establishment of an Analog Planetary Habitat Facility to Serve as a Basis for Human Machine Interface Studies

66th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2015), with three co-authors