Summary
Ivan Pakhotin is a Chief Science Officer with nine years of experience blending physics, systems engineering, and advanced data analysis to solve challenging problems across space science and high-precision instrumentation. He leads R&D for micron-scale laser scanners and conducts Earth observation research on ionospheric dynamics, drawing on hands-on work with CANDU plant inspections and satellite datasets. His background spans SAR systems engineering, multi-spacecraft plasma physics research funded by ESA and CSA, and diverse freelance projects in sensor fusion, SLAM, Bayesian inference and metaheuristic optimization. Comfortable with Matlab, IDL and legacy Fortran, he translates complex physical models into robust algorithms and deployable software. Notably, he has moved consistently between deep academic research on magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling and practical engineering delivery, bridging theory and field-ready systems. Based in Saint Petersburg (Canada), he brings a rare mix of space-science credibility and applied systems engineering to product-focused research teams.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sheffield
English, Russian