Chris Binz
Chief Architect, Mission Solutions at Umbra
Springfield, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Binz is a mission-focused aerospace engineer and chief architect with 13 years of experience applying space technology to national security and commercial missions. He has progressed from hands-on aerospace research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to leadership roles in threat assessment and mission architecture at the Space Security and Defense Program and Umbra, where he now leads Mission Solutions. Chris blends deep technical rigor—anchored by a PhD in Aerospace Engineering—with practical systems engineering and program leadership across space systems, mission design, and security. Based in Virginia, he’s known for translating complex threat and sensor problems into deployable architectures that scale operationally. A detail that often gets overlooked: his trajectory shows repeated rapid promotions into strategic roles, signaling strong cross-functional influence in both technical and policy-adjacent teams.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Engineering at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of EngineeringM.S. Aerospace Engineering, M.S. Aerospace Engineering at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace focus), Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace focus) at Rutgers University
Github Skills (167)
ode10
satellite10
ecosystem10
meta-tags10
orbit10
science10
julia10
jupyter-kernels10
scientific-machine-learning10
visualization10
differential-equations10
dde10
binder10
reference-frame10
csv9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
crbinz/SGP4.jl
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
Julia wrapper of the Python SGP4 library
Contributions:14 releases, 64 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 6 months
pythonsgp4julia-wrapperjulia
crbinz/EllipsoidSimilarity.jl
Feb 2016 - Oct 2019
Set of similarity measures between ellipsoids
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
similaritymeasuresjuliasimilarity-measuresellipsoids
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