Matej Poliaček
ISS Columbus Flight Director at Space Generation Advisory Council
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMatej Poliaček is an ISS Columbus Flight Director at DLR with nine years of hands-on experience at the intersection of spacecraft operations, software engineering, and smallsat ground systems. He has progressed through flight controller and leadership roles on STRATOS and high-profile missions like Axiom-3, combining real-time mission control expertise with software and data skills honed at ESA and in industry. As co‑founder of GroundCom.space he builds global ground-station infrastructure for smallsat operators, bringing entrepreneurial product-thinking to operational engineering. His background in software development (MSc) and prior work on autonomy, simulation (Gazebo), and telemetry/EGSE tooling gives him a rare blend of flight-proven operational judgement and practical coding ability. Active in the Space Generation Advisory Council and analog astronaut programs, he pairs technical depth with community leadership and crew experience. Colleagues rely on him for bridging mission requirements to robust, operational software and ground systems under live-flight constraints.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Software Development School of Computing Science, Master of Science (MSc) Software Development School of Computing Science at University of Glasgow
English, Slovak, Czech, German
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Github Skills (4)
unreal4
ros4
python2
websocket2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
matejpoliacek/Callisto
Dec 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:178 commits, 65 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 5 months
mt-krainski/cloudEater
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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