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 basics. Currently learning Japanese.

Programming languages : C, C++, Rust, Assembly basics (for SAM, AVR and x86), R, Python 3, Web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript ES6, PHP, SQL, NodeJS, VueJS and more), Bash, FPGA basics (Xilinx), 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, Thermodynamics, Material science. MATLAB, Maple, Simulink, COMSOL.

Others : BIA (Brevet d’Initiation Aéronautique) with honours, DR400 pilot (more than 70 flight hours), extensive team management & hiring experience.

Projects

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.