Justin Spelman
Senior Engineering Manager, Payload Test Department at BAE Systems, Inc.
Westminster, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Spelman is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12+ years leading payload integration, test, and optical systems for flight satellites, now heading the Payload Test Department at BAE Systems after four years in equivalent roles at Ball Aerospace. He blends hands-on systems engineering—optical alignment, environmental testing, and empirical performance modeling—with program management across global teams to deliver complex remote sensing instruments on schedule. An Executive MBA and Harvard Strategy Execution certificate holder, he pairs technical rigor with business acumen to align engineering execution to strategic outcomes. Outside aerospace he founded Village Science, scaling grassroots STEM programs and a low-cost Wi‑Fi education hotspot for schools in Laos, showing an uncommon combination of technical leadership and community-driven innovation.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Other; Certificate in Strategy Execution, Other; Certificate in Strategy Execution at Harvard Business School OnlineMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Executive MBA, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Executive MBA at University of Denver - Daniels College of BusinessMSc Engineering Systems, MSc Engineering Systems at Colorado School of Mines
English, Lao
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Github Skills (2)
wordpress4
hotspot1
Github contributions (3)
villagescience/wordpress
Nov 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 8 months
customizedwordpressnationsdeveloping
justinspelman/earth-engine-tools
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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