Alexandru Csete
CTO & Founder at Sheilex Corporation
Region Zealand, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandru Csete is a seasoned space systems engineer and entrepreneur with 22 years of experience designing satellite communications, software-defined radio, and embedded systems. As founder and CTO of multiple ventures including Sheilex Corporation and AC Satcom, he combines hands-on firmware and backend development with strategic leadership across aviation and aerospace projects. He holds an MS in Physics from Aarhus University and has a strong track record at organizations like Cobham SATCOM, Libre Space Foundation, and Orbex where he led telecom trade-offs and system design. An active open-source maintainer, Alexandru is the author of widely used projects such as Gqrx and Gpredict and has contributed core fixes to GNU Radio and gr-osmosdr, reflecting deep involvement in the SDR ecosystem. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous physics-based thinking with pragmatic software engineering to deliver reliable, field-proven communications solutions.
21 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Physics, Master of Science - MS Physics at Aarhus University
Github Skills (25)
c-language10
dspic10
sdl10
fm-radio10
radiogroup10
c1110
c1710
gtk10
front-end-development10
sys10
cplus10
radio-t10
embedded10
cpp10
software-defined-radio10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
csete/gpredict
Dec 2011 - Jul 2022
Gpredict satellite tracking application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 9 reviews, 555 commits in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru's commits focused on enhancing the Gpredict satellite tracking application, primarily involving the "mapcenter" feature, and configuration updates. The user added new functions to the code, including handling for the map center longitude and implementing tools for map management. The commits also introduced improvements in code modularity by creating new include files and refactoring existing ones. These commits highlight a focus on functionality and structure within the application's core functionality.
gpredictham-radiosatellitelinuxtracking
osmocom/gr-osmosdr
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Mirrored from https://gitea.osmocom.org/sdr/gr-osmosdr
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to improving the functionality and reliability of the software interface for SDR devices, specifically RFSpace and Airspy HF+. The commits focused on addressing connection issues by implementing delays and keep-alive packets for RFSpace radios. The user also added initial support and wrote filter kernels for the Airspy HF+ device, integrating device-specific functionality.
rtlsdrsoftware-defined-radiodacrtl-sdrgnuradio
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