Chris de CLAVERIE

Aerospace engineer - Paris

I am a french engineer working at GAMA, Paris. I specialize in satellite embedded systems. My core values are versatility, proactivity and determination.

Experience

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2021 - now : GNC (Guidance, Navigation and Control) & Avionics team leader at GAMA (Paris, France).

2015 - 2021 : Aerospace engineering MsC from Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées
(IPSA, Ivry sur Seine). Specialization in space and launcher systems.

2020 : 4-months internship at Ecole Polytechnique (Student Space Center). Design of on-board computer software and test-bench for the IonSat platform.

2019 : Semester abroad at NTUST University in Taipei, Taiwan.

2018 : Internship in European Space Agency’s technical centre (ESTEC) to test a range of environmental sensors in plasma in partnership with LPC2E laboratory.

2016 - 2020 : Creation and involvment in the IPSA ONE association. Onboard Computer team leader.

2016 : Internship then fixed-term contract at MALOU Tech (8 weeks), conception of multirotor drones for specific missions (emergencies, fire prevention, malicious drones interception).

2015 : Fixed-term contract at SPMA (8 weeks), manufacturing of very-high precision aeronautical mechanical parts (most notably for Dassault, Airbus et Boeing).

‍2008 – 2015 : Secondary studies and obtainment of a scientific baccalaureate with honours
(European option)

2014 : Internship at AltaProfits (4 weeks), setup of a monitoring structure of a server parc delivering an online insurance platform.

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Skills

Languages : French native, English bilingual (990 TOEIC, Cambridge CAE diploma), Spanish intermediate. Currently learning Japanese, studying towards JLPT N4 (equivalent to B1).

Programming languages : C, C++, Ada, Rust, Assembly (for SAM, AVR, RISC-V and x86), R, Python 3, Web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript ES6, PHP, SQL, NodeJS, VueJS/React and more), Bash, FPGA basics (Xilinx, Yosis), Version control (Git, GitHub, Gitlab), Continuous Integration (Gitlab, Github Actions, Jenkins), Testing & validation (fuzzing, property-based testing, formal verification).

Operating systems : Linux (distributions based on Debian), Windows 10/11. Linux server administration, active directory basics, advanced networking.

Security : Network penetration testing, Web application testing, Binary reverse engineering (Ghidra, Cutter), Social engineering basics.

Office software : Microsoft Office and LibreOffice suites, Presentations with Prezi & Eagle.Js, Image edition basics (Gimp, Photoshop), Video editing basics (Lightworks, DaVinci Resolve), Project management (OpenProject, Trello, MS Project), LaTeX.

Conception : Dassault CATIA, SolidWorks, FreeCAD, BLENDER, Google SketchUp, 3D printing, KiCad, Altium Designer, WebFlow, Godot, Draw.io, Simulink, COMSOL.

Physics & simulation : Fluid dynamics, Flight mechanics, Electromagnetism, Telecommunication & wave physics, Automatics & control, Thermodynamics, Material science. MATLAB, Maple, Simulink, COMSOL, ANSYS.

Others : BIA (Brevet d’Initiation Aéronautique) with honours, DR400 pilot (more than 70 flight hours), boat pilot licence, extensive team management & hiring experience. Experience with Zero-G flights & Zero-G experiment design.

Projects

Founding engineer at GAMA. Led teams to design, manufacture, integrate and operate the Alpha mission. Principal Investigator of zero-gravity solar sail experiments campaign with CNES. Built high-fidelity simulation & trajectory optimization tools, as well as core flight software and mission control software.

Team leader for HackASat Cybersecurity Challenge 2020, May 2020, ranked 59 / 1278
14 members from SGAC Space & Cybersecurity project group

Leader of the Design and Development team for IPSA ONE’s on-board software
Lead developer of ANNA (IPSA ONE’s team management intranet)
Active member of the Telecommunications team for two years.

Winner of the competition by Royal Aeronautical Society : ‘Best Presentation Award’ and 3rd place of the projects competition by Wiener Neustadt university (Austria) for IPSA ONE, May 2018.

Creation of IPSA ONE association : conception, and exploitation of nano-satellites (CubeSats) within IPSA in November 2016.

Act’In Space Hackathon by CNES with HEAR project, high-reliability UAV plane for sensitive airspace monitoring, May 2016.

Involvement in ODYSSEUS competition in Toulouse’s City of Space, with ADONIS project, in-orbit energy harvest using a solar panels constellation, second French-speaking place in February 2016.