João Ventura

Darmstadt Germany

Software Developer

Electronics / Computer Hardware

I define myself as a Ground Segment Software Engineer, with some experience in web development. I started in Avionics projects in a company initially called RTSN, then Skysoft and now GMV Portugal. After a brief stint to finish my Master's course in real-time systems, I found a project that I liked so much that I decided to move to Germany to work on it. The experience was very rewarding, but unfortunately it was very brief. Moving back to Portugal, I joined an exciting company, Critical Software, where I dedicated myself to space projects and eventually became a fixed-term contractor for the European Space Agency, in Darmstadt (Germany again). The experience gained there enabled me to ..