Björn Buckwalter
Co-Founder And CTO at Space Network Services
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolBjörn Buckwalter is a Co-Founder and CTO based in Toulouse with 19 years’ experience delivering geostationary telecommunications satellites from procurement and AIT through launch campaigns and in-orbit operations. He blends deep flight-dynamics and mission-analysis expertise with hands-on program monitoring and satellite platform engineering, having supported flagship programs like Amazonas Nexus, Türksat 5A/5B and ANASIS-II across multiple launch sites. Comfortable in field office and launch-campaign roles, he is equally at home architecting ground control and operations procedures for long-term GEO missions. A pragmatic technologist, he also contributes to open source—improving form handling and internationalization in the well-known Yesod Haskell web framework—highlighting a rare mix of space-systems and software craftsmanship. Fluent in Russian-accented astronautics and educated in celestial mechanics, he pairs technical rigor with entrepreneurial leadership in the commercial space sector.
19 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Celestial mechanics satellite orbit determination, Celestial mechanics satellite orbit determination at Space Systems Research & Development Institute, Khrunichev Space CenterRussian language astronautics astrophysics, Russian language astronautics astrophysics at St Petersburg State Technical UniversityM. Sc. Space & Satellite Engineering, M. Sc. Space & Satellite Engineering at Luleå University of TechnologyBusiness and Marketing, Business and Marketing at Södertörn University College
Swedish, English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (10)
use-form10
yesod10
eforms10
haskell10
internationalization9
type-system6
sml6
ocaml6
ghc6
dll6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
yesodweb/yesod
Sep 2011 - Sep 2011
A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Björn primarily contributed to the `yesodweb/yesod` repository by enhancing the form handling capabilities of the framework. Their work involved refactoring form message rendering, adding Swedish language support for form messages, and re-exporting FormMessage in `Yesod.Form.Fields`. They also addressed merge conflicts and made other minor adjustments within the `yesod-form` submodule and the core project. These contributions show a focus on internationalization and improving the usability of the framework's form features.
haskellrestrestfulweb-framework
bjornbm/astro-tables
May 2009 - May 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
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