Andrew Chapman
Remote C Software Engineer, And Fractional CTO Services at Tenex Tech Dev
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAndrew Chapman is a versatile C/C++ software engineer and fractional CTO with 12 years of experience spanning orbital flight software, drone GIS platforms, high-frequency trading, and VFX technical leadership. He combines hands-on systems and real-time programming (ROS2, flight controllers, low-latency C++) with product and team leadership, having taken projects from soldered prototypes to commercial SaaS and mission-critical spacecraft stacks. Based in Sydney, he consults remotely or as a fractional CTO for startups, offering discounted or sweat-equity arrangements for aerospace, defence and robotics ventures. His career uniquely blends cinematic-scale VFX supervision and production tooling with rigorous aerospace and trading systems engineering, and he recently completed a Rocket Science course to deepen his orbital systems knowledge.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Michigan: Rocket Science 101, 92.24%, University of Michigan: Rocket Science 101, 92.24% at CourseraBSc, First Class Honours, Computing Science, BSc, First Class Honours, Computing Science at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (35)
robotics10
autopilot10
mavlink10
plane10
rover10
arduino10
ros10
station9
px49
video-player9
cube9
player9
videojs8
dronekit8
studio8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chapman/ardupilot
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 5 months
roverplanecopterapm
AustralianUAV/videojs-overlay
May 2020 - Oct 2020
A video.js plugin to display simple overlays during playback.
Contributions:8 pushes in 5 months
pluginoverlaysplaybackvideo-playervideo
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