Yannick Melameka

Completed his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Polytech’Marseille Graduate School of Engineering, France in 2007. He is a senior thermal engineer with 12 years’ experience in thermal analysis, thermal tests, and equipment and satellite 3D modelling for the space industry. Yannick’s career began when he joined Thales Alenia Space in Toulouse, France, as Thermal Engineer Intern. There, he tested software tools dedicated to the thermal analysis of circuit electronic boards. Six months later, he moved to Cannes, France, as spacecraft thermal engineer for Thales Alenia Space with Altran. Yannick oversaw thermal analyses of SatcomBw2 spacecraft from the predictions of satellite tests temperatures to the predictions of satellite flight final temperatures. After three years in Cannes, he relocated to Leicester, United Kingdom, to take on the responsibilities of senior thermal engineer for ITP Aero, which is developing ESATAN-TMS®. He combined both his expertise on spacecraft thermal engineering and ESATAN-TMS® to provide thermal engineering technical services, answer user enquiries regarding the thermal analysis products, offer advice on the use of products, and deliver training material. Yannick then started an engineering company specialized in thermal engineering in 2013. They provided thermal engineering services to different clients across Europe. After that, Yannick and his Co-Founder started Nitrexo in 2019. Nitrexo is an engineering company specialized in delivering cost-effective solutions for thermal and analytical problems. They are developing a software platform, the Digital Engineer®, which digitalizes and automates engineering workflows. The Digital Engineer® provides industry, function, and role specific, standard methods and deep domain expertise based on user experience, at the engineer’s fingertips in seconds, and develops using a learning model that leverages collective intelligence.