Karl Parks
Senior Aerospace Engineer at Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc.
San Marcos, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Parks is a Senior Aerospace Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing, building, and debugging avionics, propulsion, and integrated mechanical-electrical-software systems for space and field robotics. He pairs CAD/FEA and fluid/propulsion expertise (LOX, LNG, N2O, HTPB) with practical electronics and firmware skills—PCB design, soldering, oscilloscopes, and embedded C/C++—to deliver hardware that works in the real world. Karl has bridged lab development and operational deployment at Parabilis and Boston Dynamics, making complex systems like Spot useful in industrial settings and advancing hybrid propulsion and small-sat technologies. He’s fluent across MATLAB, Python, TypeScript/React, Kotlin/Java, and networked communications (gRPC, CAN, UDP/TCP, LoRa), which lets him own end-to-end system integration rather than just one silo. Known as a direct communicator and pragmatic tinkerer, he emphasizes working smarter and building affordable, testable solutions—evident from leading SDSU’s hot-fire LOX/LCH4 engine test and contributing to Parabilis’ hybrid propulsion efforts.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Aerospace Engineering Computer Science Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering Computer Science Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at San Diego State University
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Github Skills (84)
cpython10
uvc10
python10
micropython10
arduino-library10
embedded10
plot10
measurements10
infrared10
inline10
ohlc10
flir10
line-chart10
servo9
adafruit9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Kheirlb/purethermal1-uvc-capture
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
Raw Thermal Data over UVC from PureThermal 2 - Lepton 3.5 - Python
Contributions:3 releases, 210 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
pythonthermalmeasurementsleptonpython-3-5
Kheirlb/kheirlb.github.io
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023
Karl's Personal Website Portfolio
Contributions:123 commits, 13 PRs, 117 pushes in 3 years 11 months
personal-portfolio-websitejavascripttailwindcssreact
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