David Yoon
Senior Components Engineer at Relativity Space
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Yoon is a Senior Components Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, testing, and qualifying valves and propulsion hardware for launch vehicles, currently leading components for Relativity Space’s Terran R program. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles across startups and established aerospace firms—Astra, Rocket Lab, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Maxar—where he focused on cryogenic and non-cryogenic valve systems, combustion devices, and lightweight deployable mechanisms. Known for taking clean-sheet designs from concept through test and flight qualification, he pairs deep mechanical design and test expertise with systems-level oversight of flight components. Based in Irvine, CA, he brings both practical flight heritage (Terran 1/upper stage hardware) and a passion for rockets that drives rapid iteration and rugged, launch-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Minor, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Minor at New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyHigh School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Crescenta Valley High School
KoreanGithub contributions (5)
Davidthefat/Rocket_Trajectory_Calculator
Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 32 pushes in 1 year
Davidthefat/Project_Euler
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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