Benoit Tapia

Staff Edge and AI Processing Engineer, I am making space simple @LoftOrbital. C++ / Go developer, Linux and open source advocate. Satellite certified operator. Hardware & Tech lover.

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📍 Toulouse, Occitanie (France)

Skills

Science	Dev
Image processing & computer vision	C / C++ / Python / Go / Rust (learning)
Applied mathematics	Linux, Yocto
Remote Sensing, GNSS	Hardware architecture & optimization (x86_64, ARM)
Space Engineering	Cloud computing & architecture

💻 Engineering Experience

Staff Edge and AI Processing Engineer @Loft Orbital (September 2025 - Present)

• Building the infratructure for AI in space
• Sensor fusion and data processing

Senior Software Engineer - Virtual Payload Engineer @Loft Orbital (December 2023 - September 2025)

Senior software engineer & architect, making space simple

• Design & dev of space compute architecture for hosting virtual missions
• Learning Sat Dev Ops
• Technologies used: C++, Python, Ubuntu, Yocto, Kubernetes, Arm64

Senior Software Engineer - GNSS System Architect @Syntony GNSS (January 2023 - November 2023)

Senior software engineer & architect, working on innovative GNSS Solution

• C/C++ & Python developer for GNSS simulators & real time system architect
• Cloud & microservices architecture to offer position enhancement service
• Technologies used: C/C++, Python, Ubuntu & Real Time OS

Lead remote sensing engineer @Airbus Defence & Space (July 2021 - December 2022)

Lead engineer of Ground Image Processing team.

• Senior C++ & Python developer
• Image processing algorithm prototyping
• Lead experiences on ARM SoC
• Technologies used : C++, Python, LLVM, Intel One API, Apple Silicon, Arch Linux, Ubuntu

Lead System Engineer @Airbus Defence & Space (July 2019 - July 2021)

Lead system engineer of CO3D ground image processing optical constellation (Airbus and CNES).

• System definition & specification (from image telemetry reception to Earth 3D model production and delivery)
• Microservices & cloud architecture definition
• Algorithms prototyping
• Technologies used : Orange Public Cloud, Microservices architecture, Kubernetes, REST API, Docker, Python, Ubuntu, Red Hat

Image Processing Senior Software Engineer @Airbus Defence & Space (September 2015 - July 2019)

Software engineer and architect for Airbus Earth observation missions (IASI-NG, Sentinel5, Pleiades NEO

• Design, implement & optimize state of the art radiometric and geometric corrections algorithms for ESA scientific missions and VHR optical sensors
• Distributed computation
• Deep learning algorithms deployment on operational stations
• Technologies used : C++, Python, Spark, Dask, NumPy, Tensorflow, image compression, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Ubuntu

Image processing software engineer @Thales (September 2010 - September 2015)

Image processing algorithms software developer for CNES & ESA Earth observation missions (Pleiades, Sentinel 2)

• Design, development and validation of remote sensing algorithms
• R&D for futur programs (compression, distributed processing)
• Technologies used: C/C++, Python, Red Hat Linux, Signal & Image processing

🎓 Education

Master degree of applied mathematics specialized in physical modeling (signal processing, fluid mechanics…) INSA Toulouse - Toulouse (France) (september 2005 - september 2010)

💬 Languages

• French: Native
• English: Fluent
• Spanish: Notions

📌 Personal projects

Heimdall Github (since 2025)

A lightweight, fast geospatial raster and vector viewer built with Tauri, Rust, and MapLibre GL. Designed as a modern replacement for OpenEV.

PESTO Github (since 2018)

Packaging & deploying your analytics (or any other processing algorithms) made easy. PESTO provides a set of tools to ease the process of packaging python algorithms as a processing web service into a Docker image.

iPhotoSync Github (since 2019)

Find, convert & backup photos and videos on iOS devices

Hobbies

🏉 Sport

• Freediving
• Hiking
• Rugby (retired)

⚙ Tech

• Automation & connected home
• Hardware architecture
• Open source OS
• Video games on Linux

🍪 Sides

• Cooking
• Science culture