Description

Spacecraft & embedded software engineer. Flight-qualified C propulsion software flown on NASA's Artemis II; built cloud-native ground control (TC/TM), ROS2 multi-rover platforms, and GODOT/Orekit mission analysis. Plus a decade of full-stack and AI engineering. Open to freelance/contract work.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Berlin (up to 50km)

NEUROSPACE GmbH
Senior Engineer, Spacecraft & Rovers
June 2025 - May 2026 (11 months)
Berlin, Germany
• • Wrote, integrated and tested C control software for the propulsion subsystem of the Tacheles satellite mission, launched with NASA's Artemis II.
• • Built the Tacheles ground control software on a cloud-native TC/TM stack in cooperation with RBC Signals (Ground Station as a Service); deployed to AWS and orchestrated with Kubernetes.
• • Built an end-to-end fleet management platform (Node.js / TypeScript / Python / ROS2) solo, enabling multi-rover coordination; wrote rover-swarm control software in C++ and Python, deployed with k3s to Hetzner.
• • Supported mission operations as part of the operations team: end-to-end rehearsals, TC/TM workflow definition, and testing supervision focused on latency, accuracy and correctness.
Chair of Space Technology, TU Berlin
Student Assistant, Mission Analysis & Astrodynamics
April 2025 - February 2026 (10 months)
Berlin, Germany
• • Trajectory and orbit analysis for the Quo Vadis feasibility study, TU Berlin's proposed Venus mission on the TUBiX-20 small-satellite platform, using ESA's GODOT and Orekit.
• • Radiation hardness and transport analysis with environment modelling in Venus orbit; spacecraft system and dynamics modelling in MATLAB and Simulink.
Astra e.V. (Student Rocketry)
AI Software Engineer
February 2025 - February 2026 (1 year)
28 Bremen, Germany
• • Built in-house trajectory simulation, Monte Carlo analysis and a cloud aerodynamics database for the aerodynamics, recovery and avionics teams; improved rocket aerodynamics with genetic algorithms.
• • Developed ML prediction of wind speed, direction and ambient pressure to ~1000 m from quadcopter data for launch sites; automated parametric models for 3D-printed rocket engines via a voxel-based workflow.
• • Ground team for the Ascendance solid-motor rocket launch, May 2025, Flugplatz Karlshöfen.