Kristopher Wehage
Robotics Technologist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Monrovia, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristopher Wehage is a robotics technologist and PhD-trained mechanical engineer with eight years of experience building engineering software, real-time simulators, and robotic autonomy tools at NASA JPL. He blends low-level C/C++ systems engineering with Python and MATLAB for kinematics, dynamics, point-cloud processing, and finite element workflows, and has led CI, build-system overhauls, and cloud-based Monte Carlo simulation tooling. Kristopher pairs this software depth with hands-on mechanical design expertise across die casting, injection molding, CNC and composite layup, and is highly proficient in SolidWorks and GD&T. His research produced novel kinematic substructuring algorithms that reduce multibody computation by an order of magnitude, and he’s translated lab ideas into hardware such as a turn-key 3D rock-scanning station used to automate drilling target selection. Comfortable working in international settings, he brings cross-disciplinary fluency spanning patent awareness, product management, and conversational German and introductory Mandarin.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, German, BS, Mechanical Engineering, German at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis
German, English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
quaternions10
control-library9
kinematics9
reduction9
biomechanics9
ethercat8
cpp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shift-dynamics/shift-models
Jul 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
shift-dynamics/ksl
Apr 2018 - Jun 2021
Kinematics Subroutine Library
Contributions:200 commits, 23 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 2 months
kinematicsbiomechanicsquaternions
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