Matthew Harwood

About

Passionate about supersonic vehicles in the aerospace industry. Extremely dedicated and hardworking. Love designing, building, and testing different creations. Worked on hands-on projects my whole life from helping make my own cargo furniture as a kid to building and testing small wind turbines in middle school and then working on machinery throughout high school to working on designing and building UAVs and high-powered rockets in college. Also, a huge endurance athlete.

Experience

• Travel at Career Break
  Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

  Circumnavigating the world on @sy_chaos ⛵️🌎🌏🌍

• Cofounder at Harwood Kettles, LLC
  May 2012 - Present · 14 yrs 2 mos

  Small biz with the brother

• SpaceX (Full-time · 6 yrs 2 mos)
  • Lead Software Engineer
    Feb 2025 - Nov 2025 · 10 mos

  • Lead Test Engineer
    Jun 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Operations & Software Automation Engineer II
    Jan 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Satellite Development Data Analytics Associate Engineer at SpaceX
  May 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Space Operations Human Factors Associate Engineer at SpaceX
  Mar 2017 - Aug 2017 · 6 mos