Ravishankar Mathur
Mission Design Group Lead at Intuitive Machines
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRavishankar Mathur is an aerospace engineer and technical leader with 12 years of professional experience designing and optimizing spacecraft trajectories, mission architectures, and guidance, navigation & control systems. Currently leading the Mission Design Group at Intuitive Machines, he blends deep academic expertise—a PhD in trajectory design and optimization from UT Austin—with hands-on cross-platform software development in C++, Python and Fortran. His career includes senior engineering and R&D leadership roles at Emergent Space and York Space Systems, where he translated advanced orbital mechanics into flight-ready mission plans and tools. Known for organization-wide technical stewardship, he connects algorithmic rigor with pragmatic program and process management to deliver complex missions on schedule. An often-understated strength is his ability to bridge research-grade trajectory optimization with production software practices, enabling both innovative solutions and operational reliability.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Purdue University
Github Skills (12)
trajectory-optimization10
openscenegraph10
opengl9
opengl-es9
cmake8
scientific-visualization8
git-repository8
messaging7
message-queue7
message-bus6
jetstream6
cloud-native2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ravidavi/OpenFrames
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Realtime interactive scientific visualization API
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 271 pushes in 7 months
interactive-3d-graphicsopenglopenscenegraphscientific-visualizationtrajectory-optimization
jacobwilliams/openframes
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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