Atilla Saadat
Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, And Control (GNC) Engineer II
El Segundo, California, United States
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Top SchoolAtilla Saadat is a spacecraft GNC engineer with 11 years' experience designing and validating high-precision attitude and orbital control systems for LEO smallsat missions. He led GNC for Turion Space’s Droid.001/002 launches, achieving sub-arcminute pointing and developing Python-based target tracking, V&V pipelines, and HITL/SITL simulations that proved inter-satellite imaging concepts. His background spans academic innovation—award-winning sensor algorithms, in-situ inertia estimation, and automated ADCS testing—to industry-grade safety tooling at NVIDIA, reflecting a rare mix of flight hardware commissioning and large-scale software automation. Based in El Segundo, he is currently advancing spacecraft autonomy at Varda Space Industries while pursuing MSCS at Georgia Tech, and his portfolio showcases a practical talent for turning simulation and calibration into repeatable on-orbit performance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Aerospace Science & Engineering (with High Distinction), Master of Science - MS Aerospace Science & Engineering (with High Distinction) at University of TorontoBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Honours Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering w/ COOP, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Honours Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering w/ COOP at University of Windsor
English, Japanese, Russian
Github Skills (10)
python5
sgp44
machine-learning3
operating-system2
ai2
command-line-tool2
calculator1
javascript1
benchmark1
gpa1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WinSAT/adcs_fdi
May 2019 - Sep 2020
ADCS FDI via ensemble ML techniques
Contributions:1 PR, 70 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
xgboosttechniquesadcsensemblemachine-learning
atillasaadat/polaris
Sep 2024 - May 2026
POLARIS is an open-source astrodynamics and satellite control software developed in Python
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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