Juan Ballesteros
Aerospace Engineer at Sener Aeroespacial
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJuan Ballesteros is an aerospace engineer with a PhD and 11 years of experience in mission analysis, ADCS design, and small-satellite systems, currently working at Sener Aeroespacial in Madrid. He has led research and engineering for formation-flying and L2 mission concepts, contributed to UPMSat-2 and UPMSat-3 ADCS development, and performed debris risk and feasibility analyses for CubeSats. As a mission analysis and ADCS engineer at IDR/UPM he taught GMAT in a space systems master’s program and gained hands-on AIT experience testing flight hardware. His background blends academic rigor—professor emeritus-level involvement at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid—with practical subsystem design following ECSS practices. Comfortable moving from simulation and CFD modeling to integration and testing, he excels at translating complex mission requirements into dependable ADCS and mission plans. An understated strength is his cross-disciplinary perspective, pairing deep theoretical research on formation flying with pragmatic spacecraft integration experience.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Space Subsystems, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Master of Science in Space Subsystems, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
muse8
database6
functional-programming2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
STR-UPM/OBDH_LABS
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Code for the MUSE/OBDH course laboratory
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 2 months
laboratorymuseobdh
adsw-upm/Concurrencia
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Ejemplos de clase sobre temas básicos de programación concurrente
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
claseejemplossobrefunctional-programming
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