Leif Hille
Senior Aero & Defense Market Industry Manager at MathWorks
Natick, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLeif Hille is a Senior Aero & Defense Market Industry Manager with over two decades of technical and leadership experience spanning the U.S. Navy, defense engineering, and commercial software. He combines submarine warfare and reserve officer experience with deep systems engineering expertise from a 17-year tenure at Raytheon, delivering integrated missile warning, IFF radar, and C2 solutions. At MathWorks he now translates complex technical needs into product and business strategy for aerospace and defense customers, while mentoring technical teams and liaising with government stakeholders. His background blends hands-on engineering (BS EE, MS CS) and strategic business acumen (MBA, summa cum laude), enabling clear communication of high-stakes technical issues to senior management. Notably, his career bridges operational military experience and commercial systems development, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on defense system integration.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA (Summa Cum Laude), Entrepreneurship / MTIE, Consulting, MBA (Summa Cum Laude), Entrepreneurship / MTIE, Consulting at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of BusinessMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.5, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.5 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Yale UniversityGreenwich High School, class of '88
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (15)
modem8
resample7
audio6
wasapi6
alarm5
python5
decoder5
pitch5
midi5
python-interface5
rtl-sdr4
software-defined-radio4
dac4
receiver4
gnuradio4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
erikson1970/erikson1970.github.io
Apr 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
erikson1970/SuperSailor
Apr 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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