Christopher Rabotin
Lead Flight Dynamics And Manager at Rocket Lab
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Rabotin is a lead flight dynamics engineer and manager with 11+ years designing and shipping spaceflight guidance, navigation, and control systems across startups and established companies. He architected and led payload and flight software for CAPSTONE/CAPS, validated orbit determination algorithms, and played a key role in landing Firefly Blue Ghost 1 on the Moon. Equally fluent in software, he contributed advanced linear-algebra math (UDU factorization) to the nalgebra Rust library and brings strong backend coding skills to astrodynamics problems. Bi-cultural with US and French citizenship and experience living in five countries, he blends rigorous engineering, technical writing, and cross-cultural team leadership. A fast learner and inventor with two patents, he has practical hands-on experience from constellation orbit-raising to formation flying and satellite operations. Based in Boulder, he is completing an M.S. in Astrodynamics at CU Boulder and remains passionate about space exploration and astrodynamics.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Computer Science Engineering at Seattle UniversityMaster's degree (Cum Laude) Electrical and Computer Science Engineering focused on telecommunications., Master's degree (Cum Laude) Electrical and Computer Science Engineering focused on telecommunications. at ESIEE PARISNotre Dame de BuryMaster of Science (M.S.) Astrodynamics, Master of Science (M.S.) Astrodynamics at University of Colorado BoulderLicence en Sciences de la Matière Physics Electronics, Licence en Sciences de la Matière Physics Electronics at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
mat10
rust10
matrix10
linear-algebra10
data-structure10
algebra9
vector9
testing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dimforge/nalgebra
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Linear algebra library for Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 47 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the implementation of the UDU factorization algorithm within the `nalgebra` library. Their work involved modifying the `src/linalg/udu.rs` file, implementing the algorithm, addressing nomenclature issues and making changes like storing 'd' in VectorN and expanding the algorithm to Dim. Additionally, they added a test and a panic test to ensure the algorithm's functionality, while also expanding the algorithm to use a generic dimension parameter.
eigenvalueslinear-algebra-librarylinear-algebrandarrayrust
ChristopherRabotin/gofetch
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 11 months
in-productionindexesweb-scraperscrapingaws-s3
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