Rahul Rughani
Chief Systems Engineer at Arkisys
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolRahul Rughani is a Chief Systems Engineer with nine years of experience designing and leading spacecraft systems, currently building Arkisys’s first Port Module for autonomous operations in low Earth orbit. He holds a PhD in Astronautical Engineering from USC, where his dissertation advanced orbital optimization techniques for spacecraft swarms aimed at in-orbit manufacturing, satellite aggregation, and close-quarters robotic inspection. Rahul has deep hands-on CubeSat experience—leading power, RF, propulsion, and systems integration for multiple student- and research-driven missions—and translated that into safety-centered RPO metrics during DARPA-funded CONFERS work. He combines rigorous analytical skills (CFD, FEA, Matlab/STK) with practical prototype development, having taken a full-scale Port Module from trade studies to a functional prototype. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a rare blend of academic depth and operational systems engineering to enable scalable, swarm-based on-orbit capabilities.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.42 GPA, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.42 GPA at McGill UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronautical Engineering at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
English, French, Gujarati
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (1)
USCLiquidPropulsionLaboratory/IREC
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 months
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