Paweł Spychalski
Staff Software Engineer at INAV - navigation capable flight controller
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPaweł Spychalski is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of professional experience and a 25-year engineering background focused on flight control and embedded systems. As a core maintainer of INAV, he led architecture, sensor fusion (EKF), PID tuning and GPS-based autonomous modes for a widely used open-source UAV flight controller, coordinating over 100 international contributors. At Raisin he progressed from Senior to Staff Engineer, bringing production-grade engineering discipline to fintech while still actively contributing low-level C/C++ optimizations and firmware flasher improvements in open source. He combines full-stack development experience with deep embedded expertise—bridging high-frequency control loops and user-facing configurators, as seen in his work on the iNav configurator and telemetry integrations. Known for making safety-critical tradeoffs practical, he pairs rigorous technical governance with hands-on coding and hardware integration.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at West Pomeranian University of Technology in SzczecinI Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Szczecinie
English, Polish, German
Github Skills (5)
configuration-management10
javascript10
html9
drones8
aircraft8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iNavFlight/inav-configurator
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paweł made several code changes focused on the configuration interface for the iNav flight controller configurator. The modifications include dropping PID values scaling, correcting GA tracking, tracking for GPS, adding iBus telemetry support, and adding configuration options for gyro, looptime, and accSoftLpfHz. They also made changes to the firmware flasher.
aircraftinavdronesinav-configuratoruav
DzikuVx/butterflight_kalman_calculator
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 commits in 22 days
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