Saudi Space Agency · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
I lead spacecraft integration and testing programmes at the Saudi Space Agency, where my team handles end-to-end satellite AIT/AIV, verification, and mission readiness across government space programmes.
My career spans the full mission lifecycle — from early concurrent design sessions and systems engineering, through cleanroom integration, environmental verification testing, launch, and operations — across four countries and over six years.
🛰 12 satellites in orbit
🚀 6 space propulsion projects managed
🤖 MMX rover mission — thermal testing for the first landing on Phobos
🌍 Worked in 🇯🇵 Japan · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🗣 Panel Moderator, International Space Debris Conference 2024 (ITU / UNOOSA)
| Period | Role | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 – present | Director, Spacecraft Integration & Testing | Saudi Space Agency |
| 2023 – 2025 | Team Lead, Satellite Engineering | Saudi Space Agency |
| 2023 | Project Manager, Propulsion Systems | Dawn Aerospace |
| 2021 – 2023 | Systems AIT/AIV Engineer | ISISPACE Group |
| 2019 – 2020 | Graduate Researcher, Environmental Testing | DLR (German Aerospace Center) |
| 2019 | Planetary Rover Researcher | Space Robotics Lab, Tohoku University |
A curated library of resources for space mission design — tools, visualisations, reference materials, and scripts. Built to make space systems knowledge more accessible and less scattered.
Python interface for the Graphtec GL840 data logger via PyVISA. Minimum working example for EGSE data acquisition — useful for AIT test setups.
Python driver for Rohde & Schwarz HMC8041/8042/8043 power supplies, all in one class via PyVISA. Built for EGSE applications in satellite testing environments.
ROS package for 433MHz radio communication on Raspberry Pi. Originally developed for the Clover planetary rover platform at Tohoku University's Space Robotics Lab.
Space Engineering
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Software & Tools
MSc Aerospace Engineering — Delft University of Technology (2017–2020) Thesis research conducted at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen on the MMX rover mission.
BSc Aviation Studies — Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (2012–2016)
Engineering Summer Programme (TESP) — Tohoku University, Japan (2019)
"The goal of space exploration is not to reach the stars — it's to develop the human capacity to do impossible things."