skyler shuford – Founder, COO

Mr. Skyler Shuford is a founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Hermeus Corporation with primary focus on throughput and risk, specifically production, flight test and airworthiness, safety, security, internal software and information systems, and corporate communications and brand. 

Prior to Hermeus, Skyler was the Director of Avionics and Software at Generation Orbit, where he was responsible for design, analysis, manufacture, and test of the in-house developed flight and facility electronic systems and software and was the technical lead for the GN&C analysis, algorithms, and hardware for the X-60A, an Air Force X-Plane for hypersonic flight research. 

Skyler worked across the aerospace sector with time spent at SpaceX, Aerospace Corporation, Northrop Grumman, and Aerojet. Skyler holds a Master of Science degree from Penn State and a Bachelor of Science degree from Cal Poly, both in Aerospace Engineering.