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Sean Keppler
Principal Space Systems Engineer specializing in spacecraft and payload architecture
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Previously supported capital raising at Space Ocean Corp by securing several thousand dollars in grant funding and building investor-readiness/outreach materials. Has early exposure to VC/studio/accelerator meetings and articulates nuanced differences in their incentives and time horizons. Interested in refining skills as an early-stage CTO and is highly committed to entrepreneurship.
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Key Strengths
- Secured several thousand dollars in grant funding via grant applications
- Strong upfront research approach to aligning proposals with grant provider stipulations
- Understands investor vs. accelerator/studio expectations and ROI/time-horizon differences
- Evaluates opportunities using market fit plus rigor/metrics (not just vision)
Reference Highlights
- Full ownership of large-scale projects
- Strong technical leadership; go-to for guidance and direction
- Keeps plans on track and drives execution
- Champions technical progress
- Realistic, scope-conscious planning and outlook
- Detail-oriented and thorough in design scrutiny
- Able to deliver MVP from concept within a designated timeframe
- Strong communication up and down the leadership chain
- Professional and successful handling of conflicts
- Effective at leading teams through major pivots to meet customer needs
- Pivotal contributions to successful project outcomes
- Strong people leader (oversaw 30–40 engineers)
- Takes end-to-end ownership and follows through to completion
- Effective in highly ambiguous, zero-to-one environments
- Instrumental in landing major agreements and partnerships
- Trusted liaison to executive leadership in supervisor’s absence
- Strong external-facing communicator with customers and suppliers
- Adaptable; able to pivot designs quickly to meet customer needs
- Collaborative partner who maintains strong supplier relationships during pivots
- Drives iterative design toward customer needs
- Successful at moving concepts from early idea to investor-ready design
- Contributed to securing LOIs and agreements (including with JPL)
- Effective at building budgets for programs
- Helped build and scale the engineering team
- Successful in developing university collaborations (e.g., Texas A&M)
- excellent ownership mentality
- strong team builder
- effective engineering leader
- adaptable; able to pivot quickly
- delivers under aggressive timelines (6-week baseline)
- aligns technical direction with customer/market needs
- highly recommended by supervisor
- great engineer
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