Rafael Duarte
Lead Avionics at The Exploration Company
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Duarte is a lead avionics engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing embedded and telecommunications systems for space applications, now driving avionics at The Exploration Company from Munich. He combines technical leadership—previously as Technical Director at CSUM and cofounder of a French space startup—with practical FPGA and SDR expertise in satellite communications and high data-rate S‑Band transceivers. His background spans end-to-end mission engineering, ground station and mission control development, and fundraising and partnerships with European space agencies. Rafael pairs an Executive MBA with advanced technical degrees, allowing him to bridge strategy, business and deep engineering, and he still teaches space communications at the postgraduate level. Notably, he has repeatedly moved between hands-on FPGA/embedded design and organizational leadership, making him effective at turning complex telecom concepts into flight-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Automation and Control Engineering, Master's degree Automation and Control Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaExecutive MBA Business Administration and Management General, Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General at TBS EducationThe University of Melbourne
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (14)
esp82669
arduino9
esp329
platformio9
sphinx7
python7
mkdocs6
encoder5
decoder5
sphinx-doc5
markdown5
delta4
gnuradio4
toolchain2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelmendes/bci_ml
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:66 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
rafaelmendes/BCItp
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:471 commits, 330 pushes, 49 branches in 1 year 10 months
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