Summary
Damien Coppel is a freelance Senior Software Engineer based in Geneva with 15 years of experience designing and leading development of complex avionics, augmented reality and demonstrator systems. He has led cross-functional teams at Airbus and Airbus UpNext, architecting real-time, multi-platform software backends for autonomous flight prototypes and embedding vision, lidar and HMI algorithms into safety-critical environments. Damien combines hands-on C++/embedded expertise (with exposure to Rust and deep learning toolchains) with a strong focus on automation, testability and rapid iteration—bringing DO-178B-minded rigor to fast-paced innovation projects. He has a track record of turning prototyping work into industrialized products (including award-winning AR and virtual integration platforms) and fostering new ways of working to preserve development velocity. International, user-centered and pragmatic, he often bridges research-grade algorithms and production constraints to deliver usable, certifiable systems.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
Information Technology, 4, Information Technology, 4 at Concordia University
Undergraduate degree, Undergraduate degree at University of Geneva