Tim Macdonald
Head Of Flight Sciences at Mach Industries
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Macdonald is an aerospace engineering leader and Head of Flight Sciences with 12 years of experience designing, building, and flight-testing aircraft across the full size and speed spectrum. He co-founded Exosonic and led multidisciplinary teams to develop low-boom supersonics and multiple UAS platforms, securing $3M+ in contracts and managing an engineering team through concept, build, and test. A Stanford PhD, Tim developed and contributed to SUAVE, an open-source Python aircraft design toolbox, and advanced multi-fidelity MDAO methods that cut wing design time by up to 5x. He combines hands-on coding and aerodynamic modeling (including supersonic compressibility and stability work) with customer-facing program leadership, having interfaced with USAF and commercial partners. Based in Irvine, CA, he brings rare depth across research, software-enabled design tools, and practical flight test delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
hardware-designs10
aircraft10
system-design10
python10
aerodynamics10
scientific-computing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
suavecode/SUAVE
Jun 2014 - Aug 2021
An Aircraft Design Toolbox
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 747 commits, 102 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits focus on updating and modifying core functionality of an aircraft design toolbox, specifically involving the calculation and implementation of aerodynamic models. Their work includes making changes to existing Python files, such as those related to compressibility drag calculations for supersonic flight and adjusting the overall aircraft stability calculations. The user has also modified scripts associated with the code.
aircrafturban-air-mobilitypythonevtolmdo
timdmacdo/OpenVSP
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
A parametric aircraft geometry tool
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
aircraftparametricsurfacemodelinggeometry
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