Summary
Ryan Stanford is an aircraft performance engineer with a decade of hands-on experience supporting certification, preliminary design, and flight test programs across business jets, transport-category airplanes, and military platforms. He has driven performance analyses and propulsion integration for Gulfstream’s G500/G600, led flight sciences for the HondaJet Part 23 certification, and contributed to F-35 and E-2D flight test and performance databasing at NAVAIR. Based in Greensboro, NC, he blends practical flight-test execution with analytical sizing, mission planning, and avionics/flight manual sustainment, positioning him to lead multidisciplinary teams through design-to-certification workflows. Ryan pursued graduate engineering studies at Purdue and NC State and brings a rare mix of certification experience, preliminary design insight, and real-time flight test operations that accelerates aircraft development and compliance.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Western Australia
Graduate Coursework, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Graduate Coursework, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at North Carolina State University
Master's Degree, Engineering, Master's Degree, Engineering at Purdue University
English