Summary
Shunyo Ogawa is a Conceptual Design Engineer with 13 years in commercial aerospace, specializing in stability and control for transport aircraft and next-generation propulsion systems. He pairs deep regulatory knowledge of 14 CFR Part 25/CS-25 and AC25 guidance with hands-on experience in flight test, model-based systems engineering, and control-law development. A pragmatic developer, he has modernized legacy Fortran toolchains by migrating core computational modules to Python and built web-based analysis tools to streamline data review. His work spans conceptual design, pilot-in-the-loop simulation, and DO-178C/DO-331–driven model coverage analysis, bridging certification rigor with research-driven innovation. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he also brings a teaching background and unconventional experience as a human-powered aircraft pilot, reflecting a lifelong hands-on engagement with flight.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering at Waseda University
Japanese, English