Kartik Kumar
Research Scientist at satsearch
Nootdorp, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKartik Kumar is a research scientist, aerospace engineer and planetary scientist with 15 years of experience blending academic rigor and space-industry entrepreneurship as co-founder and CEO of satsearch.com. He holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology and has led research on active debris removal, mission design and planetary-ring modeling across EU-funded programs and analog Mars simulations. Kartik is a long-time open-source maintainer in astrodynamics—initiating Tudat in 2010 and now building the openastro library collection—demonstrating a commitment to low-level, reusable tools for space simulation. Based in the Netherlands, he combines hands-on systems design with product-building experience from ESA incubation and field-tested analog astronaut missions, an unusual mix that bridges theory, software and operational testing.
15 years of coding experience
Space Studies Program 2016, Space Studies Program 2016 at International Space UniversityInternational General Certificate of Secondary Education, International Baccalaureate, International General Certificate of Secondary Education, International Baccalaureate at International School of The HagueDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Delft University of Technology
French, German, Spanish, Tamil, Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
testing10
test-framework10
cmake10
orbital-mechanics10
tdd10
compile10
bdd10
doxygen10
boilerplate10
cpp10
git-repository9
swig9
astrodynamics9
sqlite8
parser8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openastro/cmake-modules
May 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:81 commits, 17 pushes in 4 years 3 months
cppcmakecmake-modules
kartikkumar/integrate
May 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
pythonintegrators
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