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Hi, I’m Clara Aparicio Méndez. I’m a software engineer at the intersection of software and aerospace, focused on building reliable real-time systems for flight operations and aircraft monitoring. I thrive in fast-paced environments, taking end-to-end ownership of developing, deploying, and optimizing mission-critical components to deliver real-world impact. I bring a strong AI and software engineering background, with hands-on experience in telemetry pipelines, distributed systems, and performance optimization. I love solving complex problems, collaborating across teams, and delivering scalable solutions that cross software and aerospace domains.…Hi, I’m Clara Aparicio Méndez. I’m a software engineer at the intersection of software and aerospace, focused on building reliable real-time systems for flight operations and aircraft monitoring. I thrive in fast-paced environments, taking end-to-end ownership of developing, deploying, and optimizing mission-critical components to deliver real-world impact. I bring a strong AI and software engineering background, with hands-on experience in telemetry pipelines, distributed systems, and performance optimization. I love solving complex problems, collaborating across teams, and delivering scalable solutions that cross software and aerospace domains.

Clara Aparicio Méndez

Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Clara Aparicio Méndez. I’m a software engineer at the intersection of software and aerospace, focused on building reliable real-time systems for flight operations and aircraft monitoring. I thrive in fast-paced environments, taking end-to-end ownership of developing, deploying, and optimizing mission-critical components to deliver real-world impact. I bring a strong AI and software engineering background, with hands-on experience in telemetry pipelines, distributed systems, and performance optimization. I love solving complex problems, collaborating across teams, and delivering scalable solutions that cross software and aerospace domains.…Hi, I’m Clara Aparicio Méndez. I’m a software engineer at the intersection of software and aerospace, focused on building reliable real-time systems for flight operations and aircraft monitoring. I thrive in fast-paced environments, taking end-to-end ownership of developing, deploying, and optimizing mission-critical components to deliver real-world impact. I bring a strong AI and software engineering background, with hands-on experience in telemetry pipelines, distributed systems, and performance optimization. I love solving complex problems, collaborating across teams, and delivering scalable solutions that cross software and aerospace domains.

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Hi, I’m Clara Aparicio Méndez. I’m a software engineer at the intersection of software and aerospace, focused on building reliable real-time systems for flight operations and aircraft monitoring. I thrive in fast-paced environments, taking end-to-end ownership of developing, deploying, and optimizing mission-critical components to deliver real-world impact.

I bring a strong AI and software engineering background, with hands-on experience in telemetry pipelines, distributed systems, and performance optimization. I love solving complex problems, collaborating across teams, and delivering scalable solutions that cross software and aerospace domains.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

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Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Spanish; Castilian

Fluent

Work Experience

Flight Operations Software & Telemetry Systems Engineer at Dufour Aerospace

September 1, 2025 - Present

Built and maintained software systems for real-time aircraft monitoring and flight operations support. Implemented telemetry pipelines and backend services to ensure reliability and performance in a real-time environment. Collaborated across teams to deliver mission-critical features.

Research Assistant at Gnosis Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology

May 1, 2025 - August 1, 2025

Developed Python pipelines for fine-tuning and inference of large language models for bioinformatics applications; evaluated NLP models for DNA sequence analysis; collaborated with an international team on applied LLM systems.

Telecommunications Engineer Intern at Telefónica

November 1, 2023 - August 1, 2024

Worked on SDN use cases, data modeling with Yang and traffic engineering (PCEP, BGP-LS). Developed Python-based solutions and used GitHub for version control; gained experience in IP/MPLS and optical network architectures.

Master's Thesis - Gen IO Project at Illinois Institute of Technology / Gnosis Research Center

January 1, 2025 - August 1, 2025

Designed and evaluated LLM-based models for DNA sequence reconstruction; built ML pipelines for data generation, benchmarking, and inference optimization. Used PyTorch and transformer-based architectures; explored retrieval-augmented generation techniques to improve model accuracy.