Danny Sale
Lead Deployment Engineer -- Blades at ONYX Insight
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Sale is a Lead Deployment Engineer specializing in wind turbine blade performance and condition monitoring, with 12 years blending hands-on technician experience and aerodynamic design expertise. He has led field deployments, acoustic measurement campaigns, and hardware installs while driving aerodynamic upgrades, leading edge protection strategies, and power curve improvements for large-scale turbines. At Siemens Gamesa he developed active-aerodynamics packages, integrated aeroelastic models and control logic, and built software tools to accelerate modeling and certification efforts. His background in marine energy research and Ph.D. candidacy informs a strong CFD and experimental-measurement skillset, enabling nested simulations from turbine to farm scales. Known for translating prototype demonstrations into certified solutions, he pairs composite blade forensic analysis with practical repair and monitoring approaches. Based in Boulder, he combines field-tested deployment leadership with a researcher’s rigor and software-savvy automation to deliver measurable AEP, noise, and reliability gains.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate (Ph.C), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy Candidate (Ph.C), Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington, SeattleBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, good enough, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, good enough at University of Tennesee, Knoxville
English, French
Github Skills (6)
composite9
simulation7
journal2
creative-commons2
academia1
open-access1
Github contributions (5)
nnmrec/topo-Cascadia
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
nnmrec/UWMooringDynamics
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 issue in 2 months
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