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Zaid Shakil

Zaid Shakil

System's Engineer

34 years old
Employed Available
A graduate space engineer with immense knowledge in simulation sciences. My professional and educational background has led me to develop a strong set of analytical and inter-personal skill. With my master education at TU Berlin and recent work experiences at Franka and Airbus, my interest specifically towards software simulations and data management has incremented in multiple folds.
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Software Engineer/Masterarbiet

Airbus Defence and Space
October 2017 to March 2018
Friedrichshafen
Germany
  • Working in code optimisation of an in-house orbital determination software
  • Optimizing the existing processes and workflow.
  • Including Kalman Filtering processes in the existing error detection model.
  • Create a data base functionality for generating and maintaining a space object catalogue.
  • Implement an object cataloguing logic: Event-driven triggering of functions, e.g. initial orbit determination for unknown objects, orbit improvement for known objects.
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System Engineer/CRM

beSpace
September 2016 to September 2017
Berlin
Germany
  • Test engineer for cold gas propulsion model for LAPAN, the Indonesian Space Agency under the contract of TU Berlin
  • Customer Relationship Manager and Front-end UI designer for the upcoming space portal, capto.space

System Engineer

Franka Emika
June 2017 to September 2017
Part-time
Munich
Germany
  • Perform dynamic and controlled simulations of Panda, the 9 d-o-f robotic arm in a lateral position using ROS/Gazebo
  • Emulating analog, digital and LIDAR sensors for future mobile robot projects of Franka.
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Teaching Assistant

Rochester Institute of Technology
August 2015 to December 2015
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
  • Teaching assistant to Dr. Ertek Gurdal for Engineering Design. Activities including conducting tutorials and quizzes for students in 2nd/4th/6th semester
  • Teaching assistant to Dr. M. Samaha for Statics and Thermodynamics. Activities including conducting tutorials and quizzes for students in 2nd/4th/6th semester

Mechanical Engineer

Boeing International Corporation India Private Liimited
September 2013 to August 2015
Bangalore
India
  • Mechanical structural engineer for nose and centre sections of the fuselage, primarily of patent designs
  • Avionics engineer for tail-frame section

Research Assistant

University of Liverpool
May 2013 to August 2013
Liverpool
United Kingdom
  • Assistant to Dr. C. Sutcliffe on his research with windsurf boards. Responsibilities included data and structural analysis on product design

Research Assistant

University of Liverpool
January 2012 to June 2012
Liverpool
United Kingdom
  • Assistant to Dr. Mike Jump with his research on aircraft and rotorcraft pilot coupling systems and navigation systems.
  • Python
    Advanced
  • C/C++
    Advanced
  • Fortran
    Good
  • SQL
    Advanced
  • Matlab
    Advanced
  • Shell scripting
    Good
  • ROS
    Advanced
  • Microsoft Office
    Advanced
  • Solidworks
    Advanced
  • Git
    Advanced
  • Jira
    Advanced
  • JavaScript
    Intermediate
  • HTML5
    Intermediate
  • Presentation Skills
    Advanced
  • Organizational Development
    Advanced
  • Organized
    Advanced

Master in Space Engineering

Technical University Berlin

Since April 2016
A space concentrated masters program at TU Berlin with concentration in 4 specific fields:
  1. Space Technology
  2. Space System's Design
  3. Management and Operations
  4. Intercultural Communication

Interdisciplinary participation in Cognitive Algorithms and Machine Learning.
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Bachelors in Engineering(Hons.)

University of Liverpool

September 2009 to May 2013
Aerospace Curriculum with a concentration in Aerostructures, Spaceflight Mechanics and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Projects worked on:
▪ Analysis of Scramjet Engines
▪ Handling Qualities of a Personal Aerial Vehicle
Thesis:
Conceive, Design and Build a Quadrotor
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  • Football
  • Formula One