Summary
Kevin Somervill is a Domain Formulation Lead at NASA with 12 years of experience steering technology development, commercialization, and infusion into space applications. He specializes in partnering with industry, academia, and non-profits to establish a sustained lunar presence and translate research into operational capabilities. With an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering and hands-on coding experience, he blends systems-level thinking with practical engineering execution. Based in Newport News, Virginia, he navigates the intersection of policy, programmatics, and technical design to accelerate mission-ready solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who keeps one foot in the lab and the other on long-term strategic goals. Outside formal roles he maintains an active curiosity for code and systems, describing himself wryly as a part-time coder and “middle-aged mortal.”
12 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Christopher Newport University
M.S., Computer Engineering, M.S., Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University