Erik Holum
Owner at Astropup Engineering
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolErik Holum is a Boston-based space robotics engineer and founder with ten years of experience delivering robot control and manipulation software for NASA and commercial clients. As owner of Astropup Engineering he provides engineering services for software and scientific applications and previously led development of MoveIt Studio at PickNik while contributing to OSAM-1, the Ranger satellite servicing effort, and upgrades to TDRSS. He blends rigorous mathematical and aerospace training (MSc, University of Oxford; MS, University of Maryland) with production backend experience from Amazon to build reliable autonomy for terrestrial, marine, and on-orbit systems. A practical problem solver, he’s known for quiet technical leadership and an oddly useful talent for resolving merge conflicts in CSVs, which underscores his attention to data and real-world integration issues.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Aerospace Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Aerospace Engineering at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of EngineeringBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Computer Science at Wesleyan UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Mathematics, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics at University of Oxford
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (51)
webots10
ros-210
robotics10
robot-control10
gazebosim10
ros210
meta10
edmonds-karp10
astar10
robot10
moveit10
robot-simulator10
planning10
prototyping10
ros10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eholum/space-ros
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
The Space ROS meta operating system for space robotics.
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 9 months
eholum/moveit2_tutorials
Sep 2022 - Jan 2024
A sphinx-based centralized documentation repo for MoveIt 2
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
centralizedpythonmoveitsphinx
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