Ben Willard
GNC Engineer at Northrop Grumman
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Willard is a GNC engineer with nine years of hands-on space systems experience spanning clean-sheet design through launch and on-orbit operations. He has deep expertise in guidance, navigation & control, RPOD, orbital dynamics, and spacecraft operations, applied across roles at Northrop Grumman and Ten One Aerospace as well as leadership positions on Utah State’s Get Away Special team. Comfortable bridging mechanical, composite, and systems disciplines, he pairs an MS in Space Systems Engineering with practical production and operations experience. Known for taking projects from concept to flight readiness, he brings both engineering rigor and operational pragmatism to complex mission challenges.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Space Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS Space Systems Engineering at Utah State UniversityComposite material technology, Composite material technology at Davis Technical College
Spanish
Github Skills (5)
preserve9
conversations8
chat7
api7
rocket6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
willardb/rocketchat-history-downloader
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Download, export, and preserve Rocket.Chat user-accessible channel logs and history via the Rocket.Chat API. Designed for users who would like to preserve their conversations without having administrative access on a Rocket.Chat server.
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years
apiexportaccessiblechatchat-api
willardb/unifi-ddns
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Cloudflare DDNS (Dynamic DNS) support for UniFi OS
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
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