Robert Karban
Educator
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRobert Karban is an educator and seasoned software and systems engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and delivering complex ground-based and space systems, currently splitting his time between Caltech CTME and a CTO role at Planetary Utilities. An international leader in model-based systems and model-based engineering, he co-founded the OpenMBEE open-source community, co-chaired the SysML standards task force, and served as NASA JPL’s MBSE lead on major projects including the Endurance Lunar Mission. He blends hands-on systems architecture and digital engineering environment development with practical delivery experience from CERN to ESO to JPL. Robert has published 25+ papers, given 25+ invited talks, and earned multiple awards—evidence of both deep technical credibility and community influence. Based in California, he is notable for translating formal modeling standards into operational workflows that scale across interdisciplinary teams.
10 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
meter8
telescope7
sysml6
machine-learning5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
Open-MBEE/TMT-SysML-Model
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Thirty Meter Telescope System Model in SysML
Contributions:24 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
metermachine-learningtelescopesysml
Open-MBEE/OpenSE-Cookbook
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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