Rafael Fatou
Rotating Equipment Engineer
Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Fatou is a rotating equipment engineer and mechatronics-focused mechanical engineer with eight years’ experience spanning industrial field work and robotics research. Currently responsible for critical rotating assets at Dow’s Tarragona plants, he combines hands-on turnaround and root-cause investigation experience with reliability strategy and upgrade projects for pumps, compressors and agitators. An Imperial College MSc (Distinction) graduate and Columbia alumnus, he has built autonomous lab systems, ROS/C++ drivers for robotic integration, and GPU-accelerated simulation libraries for topology and soft-robot design. Rafael’s skill set bridges heavy industry and advanced software — from real-time IIoT/digital-twin simulations to control software and CAD design — enabling practical deployment of next‑generation robotics and predictive maintenance. Notably, he has operated in high‑pressure, multinational turnaround environments and translated that field insight into automated testing platforms and data‑driven lubricant evaluation tools.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MSc, Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Distinction at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York
Spanish, German, English
Github Skills (11)
ros-driver9
robotics8
sandbox8
simulation8
physics7
ros7
cuda6
high-performance6
gpu6
reinforcement-learning6
gpu-acceleration3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
jacobaustin123/Titan
May 2018 - Dec 2018
A high-performance CUDA-based physics simulation sandbox for soft robotics and reinforcement learning.
Contributions:34 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
cudaphysicsroboticsphysics-simulationgpu-acceleration
UniversalRobots/Universal_Robots_ROS_Driver
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Universal Robots ROS driver supporting CB3 and e-Series
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 26 days
roboticsros2ros-melodicros-industrialuniversal-robots
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