Dan Lachapelle
GNSS Software Engineer at The University of Texas at Austin
Columbia, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolDan Lachapelle is a GNSS-focused aerospace GNC engineer with 11 years of experience applying navigation, guidance, and control expertise to spacecraft and UAV systems. He holds advanced training from UT Austin’s Radionavigation Lab, where he detected terrestrial GNSS interference from the ISS and built cloud-based risk mapping with multi-vehicle sensor platforms. Dan has practical systems experience across industry leaders—Zipline, Blue Origin, SpaceX—and academic projects, combining low-level avionics, sensor fusion, and path-planning software with MATLAB/C++ toolchains. He’s comfortable moving between research and production: designing flight hardware and test rigs, automating grading and simulation tools for aerial robotics, and leading avionics design for cubesat and lunar missions. Based in Columbia, Maryland, he blends rigorous PhD-level analysis with hands-on engineering and an instinct for diagnosing real-world GNSS anomalies.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bethlehem Central High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinB.S. Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
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Github Skills (27)
mdp8
markov-chain8
simulator7
ros6
baidu6
robot6
api6
crossword6
csharp5
computer-vision5
robot-simulator5
checker5
model-checking5
machine-learning5
robotics5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dmlachap/q_learning_h_infinity
May 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
dmlachap/Pi_L3GD20
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:21 pushes in 7 months
python-librarypythoncommunicatei2cbus
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