John Karasinski
AST - Technical Management at NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Karasinski is a human factors researcher and aerospace engineer with 13 years of experience designing crew-facing systems that prioritize safety, comfort, and mission success for long-duration spaceflight. With a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, he leads human-system requirements and human-in-the-loop testing at NASA Ames, advising commercial partners like SpaceX and Blue Origin on astronaut-centered design and systems safety. He blends rigorous research in human-automation integration and error analysis with hands-on prototyping—having built AR procedure viewers and mission planning tools used in HERA and CLPS campaigns. Comfortable bridging research, software, and hardware, he has applied computer vision and control theory to docking problems while also shipping full-stack applications earlier in his career. Based in Mountain View, he brings both deep academic expertise and practical engineering experience to solve the unique challenges of crew autonomy and operational resilience in space.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California, DavisUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
1,007reputation
228kreached
23answers
2questions
fullscreen
top-5%
youtube
top-5%
Github Skills (43)
python10
data-science10
pandas10
data-structure10
data-structures10
csharp10
data-analysis10
code-behind9
javascript9
algorithm9
algorithms9
graphic9
java9
scala9
youtube9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HRVIP/HRVIP.github.io
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
This is the Center for Human/Robotics/Vehicle Integration and Performance's website.
Contributions:7 PRs, 131 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 5 months
robotics
karasinski/MAE-225
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 29 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.