Kevin Hicks
Lead Mission Operations Engineer
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Hicks is a Lead Mission Operations Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating spacecraft, specializing in Earth-sensing constellations and mission ground segments. He blends systems engineering and tactical operations expertise from roles at JPL—where he optimized Curiosity’s power and robotic arm workflows and halved tactical shift timelines—with leadership in mission CONOPS, fault autonomy, and operational automation at Millennium Space Systems. Comfortable across the mission lifecycle, he has driven integration, launch support, on-orbit operations, and decommissioning while architecting command-and-control, planning, and data-processing infrastructure. A Jack-of-all-trades engineer trained at UT Austin and Stanford, he pairs deep technical rigor with product-minded process improvements that reduce operator workload and increase mission efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s degree, Aerospace Engineering, High Honors, Bachelor’s degree, Aerospace Engineering, High Honors at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's degree, Management Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (112)
penetration-testing10
accounting10
security10
encryption10
hashicorp-vault10
linux10
secrets10
credit-card10
vault10
golang10
methodology10
financial10
finance10
graph10
go10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
khicks/Phapper
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year
phpphp-wrapperreddit
spacesiren/spacesiren
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
A honey token manager and alert system for AWS.
Contributions:5 releases, 29 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 4 months
alerthoneytokentoken-manageraws
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