💼 Experience

VisionSpace — Head of Cybersecurity

Jan 2023 – Present · Darmstadt, Germany

  • Leading the creation and growth of the cybersecurity team.
  • Designing and deploying advanced cybersecurity solutions for space systems.
  • Driving innovation across product development lifecycles.
  • Performing risk assessments and vulnerability testing.
  • Implementing cybersecurity best practices for space technologies.

VisionSpace — Systems Engineer

Apr 2021 – Jan 2023 · Darmstadt, Germany

  • Specialized in cybersecurity for space infrastructure.
  • Risk analysis of spacecraft operations.
  • ESA software development (GSTVi, SCOS2000, EDDS).
  • Designed Cyber Range test scenarios.
  • Maintained OpenNebula cloud infrastructure.
  • Engineered ROS2 DDS on Azure Kubernetes.
  • Implemented DTN protocols and cryptographic enhancements.
  • Developed POCKET+ for time-series data compression.

VisionSpace — Junior Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – Apr 2021 · Darmstadt, Germany

  • Developed JSON-RPC API for ESA SLE in Python.
  • Lead engineer on open source CCSDS SLE provider.
  • SDR integration using GNURadio.
  • Implemented ESA compression standard in C++ and VHDL.

Technische Universität Darmstadt — Student Assistant

Aug 2016 – Sep 2018

  • CST Microwave Studio simulations.
  • Fabricated microwave Lab-on-Chip sensors.
  • VNA automation via MATLAB.

DLG e.V. — Student Assistant

May 2012 – Dec 2014

  • Automated data analysis with Excel VBA.

🎓 Education

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and IT

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, 2019 – 2021

  • Focus in telecommunications and digital signal processing.
  • Thesis: “CompressionCache - Satellite Data Compression”

B.Eng. Electrical Engineering and IT

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, 2017 – 2019

  • Specialized in telecom tech and satellite comms.
  • Thesis: “Integration of an SDR Receiver with SLE Services”

🚀 Projects

ESA Summer of Code in Space — CCSDS Frame Exchange over Radio Link
Jul 2017 – Sep 2017

🤝 Volunteering

TU Darmstadt Space Technology e.V. — Head of CubeSat Telecommunications
Aug 2016 – Feb 2022

  • Led onboard and ground comms system implementation using CCSDS/ECSS standards.

🛠️ Skills

Cybersecurity • Space Systems • Leadership • SATCOM • Telecommunications • Technical Solution Design • ISO 9001 • ROS2 • Kubernetes • DTN • PKI • Python • C++ • VHDL

📚 Publications

  • Designing Secure Space Systems, DATE, 2025
  • Exploiting the Apache Karaf Console, LinkedIn, 2024
  • Exploitation of the OSGi Console, LinkedIn, 2024
  • Implementing the New CCSDS Housekeeping Data Compression Standard 124.0-B-1 (based on POCKET+) on OPS-SAT-1, Small Satellite Conference, 2022
  • SDR Demonstration System for the Investigation of Cooperative Communication and the Scaling Behaviour of MANETs, CERC, 2020
  • SpaceCAN - A low-cost, reliable and robust control and monitoring bus for small satellites, Acta Astronautica, 2019

🗣️ Public Speaking

  • From the Ground Up: Space System Vulnerabilities, CYSAT, 2025
  • Panel Discussion on Cybersecurity, SSEO15, 2025
  • Offensive Security Testing for Space Systems, DATE, 2025
  • Cybersecurity for Space Systems, MARCOM Maritime Cyberspace Security Conference, 2024
  • Hardware Accelerated Telemetry Data Compression Platform, 12th European CubeSat Symposium, 2021
  • An Open Source Implementation of the CCSDS SLE Services in Python, 11th European CubeSat Symposium, 2019
  • An Open Source Implementation of the CCSDS SLE Services in Python, OSCW, 2019
  • Developement of a CubeSat Communications System based on CCSDS and ECSS Standards, OSCW, 2018

🌐 Languages

  • English – Professional Working Proficiency
  • German – Native Proficiency