Summary
Shane Cunningham is a propulsion design engineer with 8 years of aerospace and defense experience, now focused on propulsion at Astro Mechanica after leading hypersonic structural and shock-isolation work at Lockheed Martin. He combines hands-on hardware design, CAD and PDM-driven configuration control, and flight-qualification expertise with software-savvy process improvements developed across small, fast-paced teams. Shane has a track record of delivering prototype and flight hardware under tight schedules, certifying as Principal Engineer for multiple subsystems and directly interfacing with customers and vendors. His background includes redesigns for NASA programs and applied machine learning work from early internships, reflecting breadth from mechanical systems to data-driven tools. Comfortable communicating complex technical tradeoffs to leadership, he is pursuing expanded client-facing and business-development roles. Based in San Francisco with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from CU Boulder, he blends deep technical rigor with practical program delivery.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder