Karsten Gordon

Karsten Gordon has a diverse work experience spanning multiple roles and industries. Karsten currently works at Vay as a Senior Engineering Manager - Control, where they are responsible for working across teams on control-related topics and improving safety maneuvers and vehicle control performance. Karsten'sprevious role at Vay was as an Engineering Manager - Control.

Before joining Vay, Karsten worked at Spacegramming as a Control Systems Software Consultant from November 2018 to October 2021. Prior to that, they worked at Technische Universität Berlin as a Systems Engineer Software from October 2011 to October 2018. In this role, they served as the team lead software and lead architect for a nanosatellite platform, developing modular ADCS software that successfully controlled several satellites in space.

Karsten's earlier experience includes working at ASTROFEIN - Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH as a Simulation Engineer from December 2008 to September 2011. In this role, they developed an attitude control simulation model library and contributed to research on reusable simulation models for virtual product development.

Overall, Karsten Gordon has a strong background in control systems engineering and software development, with expertise in vehicle control, satellite systems, and simulation modeling.

Karsten Gordon completed their education in a chronological manner. Karsten started by attending Paderborn University from 2002 to 2008, where they obtained a degree in Engineering Computing, specifically a Diplom-Ingenieur. Following this, from 2012 to 2018, they pursued further studies at Technische Universität Berlin, earning a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Aerospace Technology.