Thomas White
Lead Propulsion Engineer at Benchmark Space Systems
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas White is a Lead Propulsion Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, testing, and delivering chemical propulsion systems for spaceflight, currently leading full-lifecycle product development at Benchmark Space Systems. He has a proven track record at SpaceX of owning critical vehicle subsystems—retiring flight risks, cutting six tons from liftoff mass with a novel RCS architecture, and developing vehicle-level analysis tools—and has taken engines from CAD to flight-ready Pelican cases in months. A Stanford-trained aerospace engineer, he combines deep fluid-system analysis, test-stand expertise, and rapid hardware iteration with practical manufacturing and integration skills. He builds and scales teams and internal tools, has led student programs that spun out startups and set records, and is known for translating fast, research-driven innovation into reliable, flight-proven hardware.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Lowell High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Hungarian, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
napalm7
wikipedia6
openflow6
simulation5
mavlink3
autopilot3
ssi1
rocket1
simulator1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tomikam/Apotheosis
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:19 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
spacecraft-design-lab-2019/groundstation
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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