Paula Gutierrez Cascales

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Winner of multiple prestigious engineering awards
  • Experience with NASA and leading aerospace companies
  • Strong academic background with 4.0 GPA
Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled aerospace engineer with software development expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Propulsion EngineeringThermal EngineeringComputational Fluid DynamicsAerodynamicsSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

LinuxHPCPythonParaviewDSMCSTAR CCM+SolidWorksOpenFOAMComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)MatlabC++Autodesk Fusion 360Python (Programming Language)PyTorchGenerative Neural Networks

About

Meng Aeronautics with Spacecraft Engineering at Imperial College London, MIT, UC Berkeley (1st class honours, 4.0 GPA). - Head of Department Exceptional Achievement Award. Aeronautical Scholar diploma for « excellence academic performance ». - MIT master thesis: generative deep learning for discontinuities on PDEs. Quantitative financial analyst at Bank of America. NASA JPL intern in Propulsion and Thermal Engineering (publications : IAC, LPSC). MIT researcher at the Hypersonics Research laboratory. Rolls-Royce summer intern. Ex software Engineer at Magdrive and Clearspace. - Winner of SuperNova 2023 as the best Spanish Student under 25. - Engineer Leaders Scholarship from Royal Academy of Engineering. - Winner of Google Hackathon in LA Offices. - Winner Moonshot Price at VCC2023 accelerator. - Winner of the European Space Agency Grand Prix. - ESA sponsorship (ISEB) to join 50 students from worldwide space agencies. Featured on El Mundo, ESA, cadena COPE, OndaCero, Okdiario, El Público, Uk Daily News, Intereconomia, El mundo financiero, La Provincia, Imperial College. I am also in 3rd year of a Politics Science degree (240 credits) to complement my science knowledge. Additionally, I have won hackathons such as LeoHack or Leanspace Hackathon. I have dedicated a great deal of my life playing table tennis in the Spanish national team (High Performance Athlete title from Spanish Gov). Native French and Spanish speaker, between London and SF.

Experience

Selfin (yc f25)

Co-Founder

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • AI x Finance
  • Backed by Y Combinator

Bank of america

Quantitative Analyst

Jul 2025Sep 2025 · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Quant model market risk equities

Nasa jet propulsion laboratory

Aerothermodynamics Engineer

Aug 2024Oct 2024 · 2 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · On-site

  • Propulsion, Thermal and Materials Engineering Section
  • Project: Outgassing transport in Mars/Moon atmospheric flows away from a rover using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo(Linux, HPC, Python, Paraview, DSMC, STAR CCM+)
LinuxHPCPythonParaviewDSMCSTAR CCM++2

Rolls-royce

Summer Intern

May 2024Jul 2024 · 2 mos · Derby, England, United Kingdom

  • Engineering, Technology and Safety: Manufacturing Engineering and Materials

University of california, berkeley

CFD Engineer at Flow Lab

Aug 2023May 2024 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • 3D CFD of a multiphase flow boundary layer for 60% drag reduction of ships through gas injection (OpenFoam: snappyHexMesh, turbulence, Linux, Solidworks).
SolidWorksOpenFOAMLinuxComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)Computational Fluid Dynamics

Massachusetts institute of technology

Aerodynamics researcher at Hypersonic Research Lab

Jun 2023Sep 2023 · 3 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Developing a hypersonic Reduced Order Model (ROM) using system identification (SID) for re-entry vehicles by implementing a 3D static and dynamic hypersonics CFD.
MatlabStar-CCM+Aerodynamics

Clearspace

Software engineer

Aug 2022Sep 2022 · 1 mo · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

  • Working on developping a GUI with rendering IR images for debris satellite collection during eclipse in Space.
C++Software Engineering

Magdrive

Software Engineer

Jun 2022Aug 2022 · 2 mos · Harwell Campus, England, United Kingdom

  • Developing the thermal model of MagdriveNano plasma thruster in python and Fusion 360. Working in the vacuum chamber and clean room.
  • Software development of the EGSE.
Autodesk Fusion 360Software Engineering

Consejo superior de deportes

High Performance Athlete, RFETM

Sep 2011Aug 2022 · 10 yrs 11 mos

  • I dedicate a great deal of my life playing table tennis, training 3 hours per day. I frequently win medals in nationals championships that granted me with the esteem of the Spanish national team. Awarded “High-performance Athlete” diploma by the Spanish Higher Sports Council

Education

Imperial College London

Master of Engineering - MEng

Jan 2020Jan 2025

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Master of Engineering - MEng

Jun 2023Jun 2025

University of California, Berkeley

Master of Engineering - MEng

Jan 2023Jan 2024

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.

Bachelor's degree (240 credits) — Political Science and Government

Sep 2021Jun 2025

Lycée français de Madrid

French primary and secondary school

Jan 2008Jan 2020

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