Summary
Kurt Dudek is a validation engineer in Boston with nine years of hands-on mechanical and robotics experience, blending field applications, test automation, and firmware-adjacent Python tooling. At Realtime Robotics he has progressed from intern to apps engineer to validation lead, building customer-representative automated workcells, authoring public Python libraries for industrial PC communication, and shaping repeatable calibration and test plans against industry benchmarks. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Boston University, he pairs CAD, CNC and 3D-printing know-how with data-driven validation (motion capture, force-torque analysis, simulation). Outside industry he runs KD Custom Knives, where end-to-end bladesmithing sharpened his craft mindset and attention to tolerances in ways that inform his engineering designs.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Boston University