Daniel Patterson
Senior Structural Analyst at Blue Origin
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Patterson is a Senior Structural Analyst with 11 years of experience applying advanced finite element and dynamic analysis to aerospace and defense systems, currently leading structural analysis for New Glenn avionics at Blue Origin. He combines practical hands-on test planning and flight-test data reduction with strong simulation skills in ANSYS, PTC Creo, SolidWorks, MATLAB, and Excel, and holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering focused on dynamic systems. Daniel has a track record of turning complex analysis into actionable design guidance—once automating flight-test data reduction to cut workload by 80%—and is comfortable working across composite and isotropic materials, nonlinear dynamics, and qualification testing. His background spans industry and academic research, from electrohydrodynamic atomization experiments to GPGPU hardware surveys, giving him a breadth of problem-solving approaches that accelerate development under tight schedules.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical Engineering at Binghamton University
Github Skills (11)
chrome-extension6
phantomjs5
jira5
nodejs5
javascript4
filesystem4
command-line-tool4
rspec2
visual-studio-code1
printable1
trains1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dp28/dp28.github.io
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:33 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
dp28/sprint-graph
May 2020 - Aug 2020
A Chrome extension to visualize how Jira issues relate to each other.
Contributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 3 months
chrome-extensionjira
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