Summary
Vairavan Ramanathan is an engineering leader and space systems enthusiast with a decade of hands-on experience spanning startup founding, research internships, and applied hardware development. As Executive Director of Project Enigma and co-founder of Terran Space Technologies, he blends product-minded leadership with practical skills in prototyping—evidenced by a 3D-printed electrothermal microthruster and contributions to hybrid rocket testing. His background in electrical engineering, satellite FDI algorithms (DSO/ISAE-SUPAERO) and field engineering in the SAF gives him a rare mix of systems thinking, operational discipline, and embedded electronics expertise. Fluent in German and Indonesian through teaching roles, he also excels at cross-cultural collaboration and public-facing outreach. Driven by a long-term ambition to design and integrate spacecraft subsystems, he focuses now on control, intelligent systems, robotics and astronautics to turn visionary missions into reality.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ISAE-SUPAERO
Integrated Programme, Raffles Diploma, Integrated Programme, Raffles Diploma at Raffles Institution
Summer University, Summer University at University of Stuttgart
Modular Courses, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General, Modular Courses, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General at National University of Singapore
English, Tamil, Chinese, German, singapore sign language, Bahasa Melayu, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Spanish, Thai, hokkien