Alexander Duytschaever
Unemployed
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolAlexander Duytschaever is a software engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience blending aviation-grade systems and modern Python backend development, currently seeking new roles in air/space projects. His background as a former fighter controller with the Belgian Air Force informs a disciplined, safety-minded approach to software for Air Defence and Air Traffic Management, while his time at Thales and telecom firms added C++ and Linux/DevOps know-how. He is a practical toolsmith who thrives on automating workflows (Ansible, Vagrant, Jenkins), improving release/configuration management, and coaching teams in SCM and Scrum practices. An active contributor to open-source projects like Stellarium, he’s improved real-time astronomy tooling and orbital/satellite plugins—showing an eye for usability and scientific domains. Preferring simple, well-defined solutions over sprawling, profit-driven products, he avoids pure web or freelance roles and values collaboration with technically curious teams.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
VDAB (web course)candidate Air Force / Polytechnical Officer, candidate Air Force / Polytechnical Officer at KMS (Royal Military Academy)Wetenschappen - wiskunde, maths, Wetenschappen - wiskunde, maths at Koninklijk Atheneum II GentPhysical Sciences, Physical Sciences at RUGErasmushogeschool BrusselInformatics, Informatics at VUBCEVORA
Spanish, French, Dutch, English
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
c-language10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
qt10
astronomy9
cpp8
stellarium8
cplus8
git6
vendor6
github6
android6
android-layout6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Stellarium/stellarium
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 16 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily worked on improving the Stellarium's Solar System Editor plugin. Their contributions included refactoring and extending the editor's functionality by modifying the file handling, implementing features like adding and updating objects and adding a confirmation dialog. Further improvements included adding an Algol-type filter to the AstroCalcDialog along with fixes and improvements to the satellite plugin. They were also responsible for fixing a bug in the Angle Measure mode and enhancing usability with a user-configurable option.
unixc-plus-plusrealisticreal-timeuniverse
axd1967/stellarium
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Contributions:92 pushes, 142 branches, 2 tags in 5 years 5 months
eyesunixcppmacosxwindows
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