Monthon Chavan is an MEng Aerospace graduate from the University of Liverpool who blends aerospace systems engineering with practical data science and software development. Over seven years of experience includes leading avionics integration for a UAV, building high-fidelity orbital mechanics simulations, and validating viscous flows with SU2 and Ansys. He has translated engineering problems into production tools—a functional Android app for aerodynamic analysis—and applied Python, SQL, and PowerBI as a Data Science Consultant to deliver business insights. On the software side he contributes to open-source Go projects, enhancing the goofys S3 filesystem to support >1TB writes and upstream FUSE changes, demonstrating systems-level backend proficiency. Based in Liverpool, he is keen to bridge ML, systems integration, and simulation to tackle aerospace, defence, or tech challenges. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on problem-solver who moves smoothly between code, computation, and hardware integration.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at Victorious Kidss Educares
Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of Liverpool
Certified Data Analyst, Business Analytics, Certified Data Analyst, Business Analytics at IABAC
a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Monthon primarily focused on modifying and improving the `goofys` file system, demonstrating proficiency in Go. Their contributions include switching the fuse library to an upstream version, which likely involved adapting the code to new APIs. The user added a user agent string to S3 requests. The user also implemented a new BatchForget op, and they supported writing files larger than 1TB, further indicating a focus on core functionality and addressing storage constraints.
A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.
Contributions:2 PRs, 664 pushes, 194 branches in 1 year 11 months
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