Paulin Kantue
Senior Flight Control Laws Engineer at Lilium
Gilching, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolPaulin Kantue is a Senior Flight Control Laws Engineer with 11 years of aerospace experience designing guidance and control systems for missiles, unmanned and crewed aircraft, and rotorcraft. Currently at Lilium, he leads flight control laws development and flight-test envelope expansion for an eVTOL demonstrator, bringing hands-on flight test authority and model-based design expertise. As co-founder of Uav4africa and a long-time Denel Dynamics lead, he blends technical leadership, system engineering and product strategy with practical skills in high-fidelity simulation, DO-178C software qualification and real-time ML for system identification. He holds an M.Sc. and is pursuing a Ph.D. focused on fault-tolerant flight control, reflecting a strong research-to-flightpath pipeline. Known for building cross-disciplinary teams and continuous-learning programs, he excels at translating complex aerodynamic and nonlinear dynamics into robust autopilot implementations. Based in Gilching, Bavaria, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with deep flight-test and verification experience—someone who actually flies designs from simulation to certified trials.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand
German, Italian, French, Afrikaans, Zulu, Tswana, English
Github Skills (3)
infrastructure7
mavlink6
autopilot6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pkantue/MatabCode
Apr 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch, 8 issues in 3 years 2 months
pkantue/Android
Apr 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
kotlinandroid-applicationsandroid
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