Ricardo Bencatel
CTO, Founder at MobyFly
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Bencatel is a CTO and founder with 13+ years building and integrating control systems for unmanned aircraft and hydro-foiling vessels, blending academic rigor from a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering with hands-on systems engineering. He led foiling controller development for two America's Cup teams and helped bring the SeaBubbles electric water taxi to life, while also founding companies that deliver end-to-end vehicle design, integration, and flight testing. His expertise spans robust control, formation and collision-avoidance controllers, wind-energy-harvesting flight dynamics, and hardware-in-the-loop validation for on-water and aerial platforms. Equally comfortable in mechanical and electrical integration as in software and operator training, he has personally piloted, tuned, and validated multiple UAVs. Based in Porto, Portugal, he runs multidisciplinary teams that turn advanced control theory into reliable, field-tested vehicles and operational procedures.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoEscola Secundária Rodrigues de Freitas
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (6)
modularity10
api10
dune10
java9
infrastructure8
java-bindings7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
LSTS/dune
Apr 2013 - Jan 2016
DUNE: Unified Navigation Environment
Contributions:649 commits, 50 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 9 months
modularityasvduneuavauv
LSTS/imc
Sep 2013 - Oct 2015
IMC: Intermodule Communication API
Contributions:42 commits, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
imcapilstscommunicationapi-communication
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