Christian Schrader
Senior Aerospace Simulation Engineer
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Schrader is a Senior Aerospace Simulation Engineer with nine years of experience designing physics-based models and scalable software architectures for spacecraft and constellation analysis. With an MS and BS in Aerospace Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a minor in Computer Science, he blends deep astronautics knowledge with hands-on software skills across Python, MATLAB, GMAT, STK, Java, and web stacks like Vue and Flask. He has led a 10-person Agile team building a mission-planning simulation tool, driving both algorithm design and maintainable architecture, and as an intern once sped up a large Python simulation fivefold through optimizations and bug fixes. Comfortable from low-level C++ robotics code to flight-computer firmware and full-stack web tooling, he values pragmatic engineering that balances fidelity with flexibility. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he brings a track record of turning complex mission requirements into production-ready analysis tools and enjoys tackling cross-disciplinary problems that sit at the intersection of software and space systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Spanish
Github Skills (13)
plugin9
altitude8
simulation8
django3
freertos2
rocket2
firmware2
embedded2
python1
rtos1
bare-metal1
autopilot1
mavlink1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cm-schrader/cmschrader
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Personal Website hosted using Github Pages.
Contributions:107 commits, 2 PRs, 108 pushes in 2 years 7 months
hosted
WPI-HPRC/ORBrake
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
An OpenRocket plugin for simulating air brakes with active control to hit a target altitude.
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
altitudebrakesopenrocketsimulationplugin
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