R Kahawita
Senior Systems Engineer - GS Lead Lunar Utility Vehicle (Rover) Lunar Exploration Program
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolR Kahawita is a senior systems engineer leading the Lunar Utility Vehicle effort at the Canadian Space Agency, bringing 11 years of multidisciplinary experience in control theory, GNC, perception and autonomous robotics. His background spans aerospace flight dynamics and turbomachinery to industrial robotics and SCADA, enabling end-to-end systems design from low-level control laws to vehicle integration on programs like Canadarm3 and lunar rovers. He pairs hands-on MATLAB/Simulink modelling, SLAM and sensor fusion expertise with practical program leadership developed at CAE, Pratt & Whitney and Rheinmetall. Beyond engineering, he has founded and scaled impact-driven ventures and led organizational change projects across Africa, giving him unusual strength in translating technical complexity into operational and business outcomes. Based in Montreal, he combines academic depth in aerospace control with a track record of delivering integrated robotic systems under strict safety, schedule and interdisciplinary constraints. Notably, he moves fluidly between flight-control theory and real-world embedded/SCADA implementations, a blend that speeds prototype-to-flight readiness.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
(M.Eng.), Aerospace Engineering - Flight Dynamics and Automatic Control, (M.Eng.), Aerospace Engineering - Flight Dynamics and Automatic Control at Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal(B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering w/ Specialization in Aeronautics, (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering w/ Specialization in Aeronautics at McGill University
English, French, NorwegianGithub contributions (4)
rdustinkahawita/BLACKlink
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
rdustinkahawita/CarND-AdvancedLaneLines-P2_Submission
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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