Summary
Chadwick Wingrave is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience blending research rigor and industry leadership, currently building space systems at Lockheed Martin. He has co-founded multiple startups and led engineering and UX teams on projects ranging up to $40M, bringing a pragmatic mix of technical, people, and product skills. Chadwick emphasizes capturing domain knowledge through scenarios, iterative wireframes and prototypes, and driving measurable progress with disciplined processes. Comfortable in both hands-on development and strategic program rescue, he has a strong academic foundation including a PhD and MS from Virginia Tech that informs his approach to complex, high-stakes problems. Based in West Chester, PA, he’s known for turning ambiguous requirements into actionable designs and sustaining delivery across distributed teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Virginia Tech
PhD - unfinished (major professor left), PhD - unfinished (major professor left) at Georgia Institute of Technology