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About me
I live in Romania with my wife, four kids and two dogs.
Space credentials
I worked in European Space Operations for 11 years from 2005 to 2016, at Heavens-Above GmbH, at the DLR campus in Oberpfaffenhofen.
I worked on the following major missions:
Columbus (ISS module): Telemetry display system satmon, telemetry archive, control room displays.
TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X SAR mission: Mission planning system, telemetry display system satmon, telemetry archive.
SAR-Lupe 1-5: Satmon, proprietary command console GUI
SATCOMBw 1/2: Satmon
Eutelsat: Satmon
Software credentials
I have been programing since I was 12, starting on an Atari 800. Yes, I am pretty old.
In addition to the proprietary ground segment software above, I worked on several open source projects.
- The Scala language
- The Spire abstract algebra library
- A distributed event sourcing system for Actyx.
Currently I am working on iroh, a networking library for direct peer to peer connections.
I like both highly abstract fuctional programming and low level programming.