James Parkus
Mechanical Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Columbia, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJames Parkus is a mechanical engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing, machining, and assembling flight hardware for space missions, currently contributing to the Space Exploration sector at Johns Hopkins APL. He combines practical CAD and analysis skills in SolidWorks and MATLAB with shop-floor expertise on lathes and mills, and has led propulsion development as Student Director of RIT's Space Exploration research group. His background spans sounding-rocket and detector experiments (CIBER-2, CSTARS) and thermal and force-model work for high-profile missions like Dragonfly and Parker Solar Probe, reflecting both lab and systems-level thinking. Now pursuing robotics and controls in an MS program at Johns Hopkins, he bridges academic research and applied engineering to deliver reliable, flight-ready mechanisms.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Alumni, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Alumni at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering - Robotics & Controls, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering - Robotics & Controls at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringTrinity-Pawling School
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
formatting7
boilerplate7
javascript3
pdf3
pdf-files2
jekyll1
satellite1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jprks/Cold-Gas-Thruster
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
RIT-Space-Exploration/Hyperion-Airbag-Analysis
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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