Summary
Ryan Schulz is a Senior Software Engineer in Denver with 12 years of experience specializing in designing, developing, and delivering software and control systems for unmanned underwater vehicles. He has led end-to-end vehicle controller development, hydrodynamics modeling, simulation, and GN&C efforts across startups and aerospace contractors, including executive engineering leadership and hands-on implementation. Ryan combines systems engineering rigor from a Purdue aerospace background with practical software craft—selecting hardware/OS, integrating sensors and messaging, and building operator consoles and web interfaces. He balances project management and proposal leadership with deep technical work, having moved between VP, lead engineer, and senior engineer roles where he both architected tools and shipped production systems. An uncommon strength is his long-term ownership of internal modeling and simulation toolchains that bridge hydrodynamic analysis to deployed autopilots.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University