Casey Deen
Team Leader - Optical Testing at Mynaric
Althegnenberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Deen is an optical engineer and team leader with 15 years of hands-on experience designing, commissioning, and testing high-performance optical instruments—from infrared astronomical spectrographs and adaptive optics to laser communication terminals. Currently leading Optical Testing at Mynaric, Casey blends lab-to-flight test expertise with systems engineering, error-budget driven metrology, and embedded testbench development to drive reliable production and fielded performance. His background as an AO technical lead for interferometry and postdoctoral research at Max Planck institutes gives him deep skills in wavefront sensing, data-pipeline development (C++, Python, MATLAB), and control theory applied to real-time systems. Known for independently conceiving test approaches and tailoring measurement setups under tight budget and schedule constraints, he bridges research-grade optics and scalable industrial AIT processes. Based in Bavaria, he pairs a PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics with practical procurement and project support experience, making him effective at turning complex optical requirements into repeatable operational procedures.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Texas A&M University
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
infrared3
python2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
soylentdeen/Graffity
Oct 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
gravitypythonwfsdata-processingsimulator
soylentdeen/MoogPy
Aug 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 148 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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