Jordan Croom
VP Of Payloads at Side Door Ventures
El Segundo, California, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Croom is a mechanical and aerospace engineer turned product and technical leader with nine years of experience building space robots, drones, and in-space manufacturing platforms. As VP of Payloads at Varda Space Industries he leads development of pharmaceutical manufacturing and reentry testbeds, translating mission-level goals into hardware, software, and operational systems. He has a track record of creating new business lines and multimillion-dollar pipelines—launching affordable space-robotics products and winning major NASA and industry programs. Equally at home writing code, architecting systems, and designing intricate mechanisms, he thrives on cross-functional, high-complexity problems that span engineering and go-to-market strategy. An active investor and mentor in deep/frontier tech, he leverages hands-on R&D experience—from additive manufacturing qualification to lunar robotic arms—to spot breakthrough opportunities others miss. Based in El Segundo, he combines Caltech space engineering training and Vanderbilt fundamentals with practical startup and flight-hardware delivery experience.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
GoingVCNanodegree, Robotics Software Engineering, Nanodegree, Robotics Software Engineering at UdacityMaster of Science (MSc), Space Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Space Engineering at California Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (2)
stereo3
3d-reconstruction1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
croomjm/RoboND-DeepLearning-Project
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:105 pushes in 1 year 4 months
learning-projectdeep-learningfollowtensorflowterm
croomjm/RoboND-Rover-Project
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
roverunity
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