Casey Kuhns
Staff Electrical Engineer at Ursa Major
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Kuhns is an avionics engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering flight-critical hardware and systems across leading aerospace firms. He has led avionics and systems engineering at Ursa Major and was Responsible Engineer for mission and safety-critical avionics on Blue Origin’s New Shepard, now continuing that trajectory at Rocket Lab in New Zealand. His background spans product development, manufacturing-focused hardware design, embedded firmware, and robotics integration—skills honed from Sparkfun prototyping to Honeybee and Orica systems work. Casey combines practical DFM and test-driven approaches with systems-level thinking to drive reliable flight hardware from concept through production. He thrives in collaborative environments solving tough problems and often brings unconventional hardware-first solutions learned from open product development and educational projects. Colleagues rely on him for translating tight requirements into manufacturable, flight-ready avionics.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at University of Northern Colorado
Github Skills (21)
heart-rate10
sparkfun10
eagle10
monitor8
mezzanine7
breakout7
robot7
raspberry-pi7
robotics6
sandbox4
pressure4
finder4
react3
sensor3
docker2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
caseykuhns/MotoMaster
Jun 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
sparkfun/SparkFun_T5403_Barometric_Breakout
Aug 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 8 months
boardbreakout
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