Youssef Demitri
VP Of Engineering at Wingtra
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYoussef Demitri is a VP of Engineering based in Zurich with 11 years of experience building autonomous aircraft software and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He rose through multiple technical and leadership roles at Wingtra—from founding robotics engineer and autopilot firmware lead to Head of Software and now VP—combining hands-on embedded systems expertise with product delivery and release management. His academic background in mechatronics and robotics from TU Darmstadt and ETH Zurich underpins deep knowledge in control systems and firmware design. As an active contributor to the widely used PX4 Autopilot project, he has improved estimator and logging subsystems to enhance state integration and data analysis for flight controllers. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who bridges low-level real-time engineering and strategic software organization. He brings a rare blend of avionics-grade embedded competence and scaled software delivery experience in the commercial drone space.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 5.7 (GPA), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 5.7 (GPA) at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichTechnischen Universität DarmstadtAbitur, 1.1, Abitur, 1.1 at Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule Kairo
English, German, Arabic, French
Github Skills (9)
control-systems10
embedded10
c-language10
px410
cprogramming-language10
autopilot10
sys10
logging9
datalog9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 1 year
Contributions summary:Youssef contributed to the PX4 Autopilot Software by implementing low-pass filters for attitude rates within the estimator module. They added covariance data logging and incorporated control state data into the logging system for enhanced data analysis. The user integrated the control state data throughout several control modules, including the fw\_pos\_control\_l1, fw\_att\_control, mc\_pos\_ctrl, and mc\_att\_control modules, and attitude\_estimator\_q, suggesting a focus on enhancing the integration and data flow of the autopilot system.
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yyassa/recipes
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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