Summary
Thomas Riecken is a data-savvy Product Owner with 13+ years delivering business intelligence, data engineering, and product leadership across aerospace, defense, and academia. He has led platform and Pathfinder programs at Raytheon Technologies and shaped central data practices at Blue Origin, pairing deep ETL and SQL expertise with roadmap and stakeholder orchestration. Comfortable bridging developer teams, COTS vendors, and domain experts, he routinely turns complex manufacturing and supply-chain data models into reliable production services. An astrophysics-trained analyst, he began his career on large-scale astronomical data and brings that rigor to enterprise data quality, orchestration, and time-travel aggregations. Based in Oak Harbor, WA, he also has startup and game-dev experience, giving him an entrepreneurial bent for productizing technical ideas.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astronomy and Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astronomy and Physics at University of Washington
Tahoma HS