Richard Koshak
Lead Cyber Engineer at MITRE
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Koshak is a Lead Cyber Engineer with 11+ years in security engineering and a broader career that began in software and systems engineering. Based in Colorado Springs, he leads cross-domain security work at MITRE, drawing on deep experience from long tenures at Raytheon across software, physics, and cyber roles. He holds advanced degrees in security and engineering and combines formal research, teaching, and published work with hands-on coding and technical writing. An active tinkerer in home automation, he contributes to the openHAB docs—improving tutorials and onboarding—reflecting a practical focus on usability as well as technical rigor. Colleagues would describe him as a lifelong learner who turns complex, auditable security requirements into clear, operational solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Engineering, Masters, Engineering at Texas Tech UniversityBS, Major: Computer Science Minor: Art History, BS, Major: Computer Science Minor: Art History at The University of New MexicoMasters, Security Engineering, Masters, Security Engineering at Southern Methodist University
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openhab9
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Github contributions (5)
openhab/openhab-docs
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
This repository contains the documentation for openHAB.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:30 reviews, 37 commits, 35 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focuses on updating and expanding the documentation for the openHAB project. Their contributions involve removing outdated tutorials, revising language, and adding new tutorials covering various aspects of the system. They consistently incorporate corrections, formatting improvements, and link fixes to enhance the readability and accuracy of the documentation. Furthermore, the user contributed to the design of the tutorials, and they were also responsible for the implementation of the Getting Started Tutorial.
openhab
rkoshak/sensorReporter
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
A python based service that receives sensor inputs and publishes them in various ways.
Contributions:1 release, 26 reviews, 189 commits in 7 years 7 months
pythonbluetoothgpiomqttopenhab
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