Senior Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer with 8+ years core aerospace industry experience

Volocopter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Flight Control Test Engineer Jan 2025 - Apr 2025, Germany - Supporting the Flight control system (FCS) & Avionics of VolocityVC2 during the flight tests. - Flight test data analysis using MATLAB scripts and in-house tools - Performing root cause analysis on the incidences on flight control systems and avionics. Airbus India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lead Engineer Aug 2022 - Dec 2025, Bengaluru - Demonstrated technical leadership by leading a team of five flight control engineers in the end-to-end development and delivery of ATA 27 EFCS packages for Training Simulators across all Airbus programs (A320, A330, A350, A380, and A400M). - Led the POC on Retrofitting an A330 aircraft with an AEWC radar system - Conducting Monte Carlo simulations to assess sensitivity by varying aerodynamic and control derivatives. - Good understanding of various Airbus flight control laws, like the Normal, Alternate and Direct law along with their degradation conditions. - Airbus SPOT Award for implementing a critical malfunction. Larsen & Toubro Defence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flight Dynamics & Control Manager Feb 2020 - Aug 2022, Mumbai - Development of high-fidelity 6DOF flight dynamics models for a 100Kg catapult launched target drone. - Defining the overall architecture of the 6DOF model and validate the models using flight test data. - Performing stability analysis such as Phugoid, Short Period, and Dutch Roll and deriving plant models for control system design. - Splinter Explosion Modeling and Simulation. - Design and implementation of classical gain-scheduled cascaded PI controllers for the Pitch-and-Roll Autopilot. - Implementation of L1 Guidance, Fillet Algorithm for trajectory generation. - Involved in HiL and flight test campaigns and flight test data analysis. Zeus Numerix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior CAE Engineer Sep 2017 - Aug 2018, Pune - Implementation ofImpact Angle Constrained Guidance and LeadLag Compensation based Roll and Pitch Autopilot. - Bearings Only position estimation from a Passive SONAR using Extended Kalman Filter