Luis Fernandes — Embedded & Systems Software Engineer

01 Selected work

Featured projects

Five flagship builds across flight telemetry, astrophysical HPC, distributed compute and Linux internals.

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Aerospace & Flight Telemetry // NASA Student Launch (USLI) · Long Beach Rocketry

LBR Telemetry & Ground Control

Ground-station telemetry reception pipeline engineered for high-power NASA Student Launch rocketry. Reconstructs noisy 915 MHz Semtech SX1262 LoRa bitstreams with sub-millisecond FSM frame synchronization, Doppler compensation, and zero-copy IPC into a Qt Ground Control Station with <20ms end-to-end latency.

RF Link Semtech SX1262 LoRa (915 MHz)

End-to-End Latency < 20ms (Doppler Compensated)

Stream Buffer Lock-Free Zero-Copy IPC Ring

Target System Flight Software (FSW) & Qt GCS

Astrophysical HPC & Numerical Simulation // Open-Source Research

BLITZAR: Astrophysical HPC Simulation

Massively parallel N-Body and Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) engine in CUDA with Octree spatial acceleration for 100M particles. Optimized via Structure-of-Arrays (SoA) and memory coalescing to achieve 92% of RTX 4070 VRAM bandwidth; validated under NASA NPR-7150.2D & NASA-STD-8739.8B engineering standards.

Particle Scale 100,000,000 Particles (Octree)

Memory Saturation 92% VRAM Bandwidth (RTX 4070)

Numerical Solvers Leapfrog & Runge-Kutta (RK4)

Mission Standards NASA NPR-7150.2D / STD-8739.8B

Applied AI & Computational Physics // Open-Source Research

PyroCast: AI Wildfire Spread Prediction

AI-driven wildfire behavior prediction and tactical mission simulation. Combines wildfire combustion physics, weather forcing, terrain-aware meshes, and Monte Carlo inference with 2D/3D thermodynamic CFD flow visualization for field-mission operations.

Inference Core Monte Carlo & Neural Inference

Physics Coupled Terrain CFD & Thermodynamics

Spatial Meshes Real-time 2D / 3D Geospatial Grids

Operational Output Tactical Fire-Risk & Mission Maps

Distributed Systems & Edge Verification // Capstone Project (Founder & Team Lead)

Silicium Network: Decentralized Compute Grid

Decentralized high-throughput compute grid harnessing low-power IoT devices via Solana (Rust/Anchor). Employs recursive delegation protocols with <128 KB memory footprints for autonomous edge verification and a custom dockerized C++ ELF partitioner cutting task overhead by 30%.

Memory Footprint < 128 KB Recursive Delegation

Binary Partitioner Dockerized C++ ELF (x86-64 / AArch)

Latency Overhead -30% Task Dispatch Latency

Consensus Engine Solana / Rust / Anchor Protocol

Computational Physics & Optics // Parallel Computing

Relativistic Raytracer (Schwarzschild & Kerr Metrics)

Curved-spacetime optical raytracer numerically integrating null geodesic differential equations under General Relativity. Solves photon deflection, gravitational lensing, accretion shadows, and Doppler redshift around spinning Kerr black holes using CUDA four-vector matrices; achieves 140+ frames/hour in 8K export.

Metric Space Schwarzschild & Kerr Metrics

Numerical Solver Runge-Kutta 4th Order (RK4)

Rendering Speed 140+ Frames/Hour @ 8K UHD

Compute Engine CUDA 4-Vector Matrix Kernels

02 Trajectory

Experience & Education

Engineering trajectory across aerospace telemetry, systems R&D, and computer engineering education.

2025 – Present Aerospace · NASA USLI Long Beach, CA

Lead Telemetry & Ground Control Software

Long Beach Rocketry · NASA Student Launch

Architected low-latency C++/LoRa telemetry pipeline with Doppler tracking and Qt Ground Control Station. Reconstructs noisy 915 MHz Semtech SX1262 bitstreams with sub-millisecond FSM frame synchronization and lock-free ring buffer (<20ms latency).

C++20 LoRa / SX1262 Doppler Tracking Qt GCS Lock-Free IPC

Aug 2025 – May 2026 Academic Exchange Long Beach, CA

Electrical & Computer Engineering

California State University, Long Beach

Advanced coursework in System-on-Chip (SoC) Design, Computer Logic Systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and Machine Learning & Data Analysis.

SoC Design Computer Logic DSP Machine Learning

Apr – Aug 2025 Industry R&D Lille, FR

Software & Systems Engineering Intern

X'PROCHEM (R&D Pharma)

Automated peptide synthesis (LIMS). Reduced PostgreSQL search query latency by 40% with atom-based indexing. Built a 0.0001 Da mass spectrometry anomaly detection engine reducing false positives by 28%.

C Python PostgreSQL Indexing Mass Spectrometry LIMS

Oct 2023 – Feb 2025 Industry Reims, FR

QA Tester & Android Automation Developer

Monstock (Supply Chain)

Documented 100+ critical bugs (-38% release-blocking defects) and architected a Java/Appium regression test pipeline cutting end-to-end test execution cycles by 55%.

Java Appium Android CI/CD Automation

Jul – Oct 2023 Industry Maraussan, FR

Enterprise App Developer Intern

Indium Solutions (Groupe Cold)

Custom ERP architecture and high-volume stock-import ETL pipeline processing tens of thousands of records per batch with fuzzy deduplication.

ETL Architecture Fuzzy Deduplication PostgreSQL

2021 – Expected Jun 2027 Master's Degree Paris, FR

Master’s Degree in Systems & Software Engineering

Epitech — Tek5 Systems Engineering

Low-level C / pure x86-64 assembly reimplementation of libc, Linux binary analysis tools (strace, nm, objdump) via ptrace/ELF64, CUDA GPGPU, signals & Unix IPC.

C x86-64 Assembly Linux Internals (ptrace/ELF) CUDA POSIX IPC

03 Toolbox

Skills & technical stack

Grounded in first principles: hardware boundaries, deterministic execution, measurable results.

HW

Embedded & digital logic

FPGA (VHDL / Verilog) · Vivado
SoC Design & DSP fundamentals
Bare-metal C on ARM Cortex-M / ESP32
UART · SPI · I²C · CAN · Semtech LoRa

SYS

Systems & HPC

Linux / Unix internals (10+ years)
C · C++20 · x86-64 Assembly
CUDA & OpenCL GPGPU acceleration
ptrace(2) · ELF64 ABI · POSIX threads & IPC

TEL

Flight telemetry & networking

NASA USLI Flight Software (FSW)
Doppler compensation & SX1262 LoRa
Lock-free zero-copy ring buffers
CRC-32 hardware validation & Qt GCS

SIM

Numerical & physics simulation

100M-particle N-Body / SPH in CUDA
NASA Standards (NPR-7150.2D / 8739.8B)
Leapfrog & Runge-Kutta (RK4) integrators
General Relativity geodesics (Kerr/Schwarzschild)

Languages & Tooling CC++20CUDARustx86-64 ASMVHDLPythonJavaBashDockerVivadoGDB / Perf / Nsight

04 Catalog

Engineering Project Index

Curated archive of low-level systems, flight telemetry, numerical simulations, and AI architectures.

Epitech Monorepo (50 builds) ↗

05 Compatibility Engine

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Traitement 100% local

96% ADÉQUATION

Stack 98%

Domaine 95%

Normes 94%

Aerospace & Flight Software Excellente Adéquation

Profil directement aligné sur vos exigences techniques

Ce poste correspond directement au travail de télémétrie vol développé pour NASA Student Launch et à l'architecture C++20 bas niveau.

Compétences Validées

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Expériences Alignées

Projets Ciblés en Accord

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06 Contact

Let's build something deterministic.

Available for engineering roles in the US & Remote — Embedded Systems, Flight Software, High-Performance Computing, or Applied AI.

F-1 visa (OPT/CPT eligible), J-1 / JPI sponsorship eligible. Academic reference on request (Prof. Dan Cregg, CSULB).

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Email

luis.fernandes.contact@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/luisfernandes-eng

Embedded Software Engineer. HPC & AI Research.