Duncan Mcnae
Senior GNC Engineer at Rocket Lab
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan Mcnae is a Senior GNC Engineer with 11 years of applied engineering experience, currently shaping guidance, navigation, and control at Rocket Lab after progressing through flight analysis and safety leadership roles. He brings deep expertise in fluid dynamics, CFD, numerical analysis and mechanical design rooted in a PhD on unsteady effects in wind and tidal turbines from Imperial College London. Duncan has a strong track record of building analysis and optimisation tools in C++, Python and Fortran, integrating CFD with CAD to automate design and production workflows. His background designing and optimising turbines for HydroWorks and Enercon gives him a rare blend of aero/hydrodynamics intuition and practical systems engineering for high-risk, launch-grade vehicles. Based in New Zealand, he combines research-grade modelling skills with operational flight experience to deliver robust, data-driven GNC solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Fluid dynamics of tidal and wind power turbines, PhD, Fluid dynamics of tidal and wind power turbines at Imperial College LondonBEng (Hons), Mechanical Engineering, BEng (Hons), Mechanical Engineering at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (13)
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activity-indicator9
spinners9
build-system9
elapsed-time9
kernel-density8
termcolor8
density-estimation6
cpp6
multidimensional6
progress-bar6
statusbar6
kernel5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
duncanmcn/kdepp
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
Kernel density estimation for C++. Multidimensional.
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year
kernelmultidimensionalcppkernel-density-estimationkernel-density
duncanmcnae/cpp_brent
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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