Estefanía García Gallardo

I am the senior software engineer in charge of developing a real-time tokamak control software for fusion research environments. Responsible for developing, configuring, integrating, and validating software components using the MARTe2 real-time framework, supporting control applications for signal acquisition, processing, diagnostics integration, actuator coordination, and machine operation.

Key responsibilities include:

Developing and maintaining real-time software modules for tokamak control applications.

Configuring MARTe2 applications, data sources, signal flows, and execution chains.

Supporting integration between diagnostics, power supplies, actuators, and supervisory control systems.

Implementing and validating software for plasma-control and machine-control workflows.

Testing, debugging, and commissioning real-time control applications in experimental environments.

Collaborating with physicists to convert experimental requirements into reliable software solutions.

Ensuring software quality, maintainability, timing correctness, and operational robustness in a high-performance scientific context.

I have worked as a Senior Freelance Software Developer for over 9 years, delivering high-quality software solutions for clients across different technical environments, from web applications and developer tools to real-time control systems for scientific and industrial use cases. My responsibilities include analysing client requirements, designing scalable software architectures, developing and maintaining robust codebases, integrating APIs and external systems, debugging complex issues, improving performance, and ensuring long-term maintainability. I have experience working independently as well as collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, translating business or engineering needs into reliable technical solutions. In recent projects, my work has also included developing and configuring MARTe2-based real-time control software for tokamak systems, supporting signal acquisition, control logic, hardware integration, testing, validation, and commissioning activities. Across all projects, I focus on clean code, clear communication, technical ownership, and delivering software that is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with the client’s goals.