Summary
Christian Kuss is a Mission Software Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building robust ground and mission systems for aerospace and defense. Currently at Anduril, he brings recent experience from Terran Orbital where he focused on ground software, and earlier roles at Microsoft, Amazon Robotics, and startups where he implemented storage efficiency, ML data pipelines, and payment/microservice integrations. He combines systems-level thinking from a Computer Engineering background with practical full-stack delivery—ranging from low-level rescue services and DynamoDB-backed UIs to GPU-enabled AWS Batch workflows and erasure-coded cloud storage. Known for shipping test-driven solutions and automating complex pipelines, he thrives at the intersection of embedded/mission-critical software and cloud-native tooling. Based in Newport Beach, CA, he presents a mix of startup agility and enterprise rigor, and maintains a public portfolio at christiankuss.com that highlights his cross-domain projects.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
German, Japanese