David Santamaría
NGWS FCAS - Senior Engineer (Simulación) at Indra Group
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolDavid Santamaría is an aerospace engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC/AOCS) for spacecraft, now applying his expertise as a senior simulation engineer in NGWS/FCAS. He led the GNC development for OSSIE, Spain’s first orbital transfer vehicle, delivering end-to-end 6DoF simulation, EKF-based navigation, thruster allocation via convex optimization, and HIL-validated control laws. His background spans real-time HIL frameworks, SGP4 and special perturbation propagators for robust state estimation, and practical implementations for magnetorquers and electrodynamic tether demonstrators. Comfortable bridging research and flight-ready systems, he excels at turning complex mission concepts into validated onboard solutions. Based in Madrid, he blends deep academic training from Universidad Carlos III and Delft with hands-on industry impact across startups and established aerospace firms.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Erasmus Exchange Program – MSc in Space Engineering, Erasmus Exchange Program – MSc in Space Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyBSc in Aerospace Engineering, BSc in Aerospace Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English
Github Skills (38)
frontend8
gesture8
animation8
react-native7
javascript7
ios7
typescript7
android7
react-native-reanimated7
multithreading7
react7
oauth6
mobile6
nodejs6
auth5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
suribi/DoomKernel
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
prshkr07/Thunder-Kernel
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:67 commits in 1 month
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