Carlos Cortes
Assistant Professor at Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Chile
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCarlos Cortes is an assistant professor and Ph.D. electrical engineer with 13 years of experience building flight software, embedded systems, and nanosatellite missions, including leading development on the SUCHAI CubeSat series. He has blended academic research on distributed space systems with hands-on engineering at DLR's Flight Software Department and industry roles delivering mission-critical embedded solutions. Comfortable across low-level firmware, satellite communications, and distributed architectures, he bridges research and operational spaceflight software. Co-founder activity in the space startup scene and a history of teaching computer engineering courses underline his mix of entrepreneurship, mentoring, and technical leadership. An oft-overlooked strength is his background in geostatistics and scientific visualization, which informs rigorous data-driven design in constrained aerospace systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Summa cum laude, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Summa cum laude at Universidad de ChileDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electric Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electric Engineering at University of Chile
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (35)
python-telegram-bot9
garmin9
telegram-bot9
telegram9
chatbot9
decoder9
satellite9
orbital8
esp328
gnu8
arduino8
gnuradio8
python8
nmea8
platformio7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spel-uchile/spel-site
Apr 2020 - Mar 2024
SPEL web site
Contributions:1 review, 32 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 11 months
spelweb-site
spel-uchile/SUCHAI-Flight-Software
Jun 2013 - Apr 2022
SUCHAI Nanosatellite Flight Software
Contributions:623 commits, 2 PRs, 525 pushes in 8 years 11 months
flightnanosatelliteflight-software
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.