Nathan Silvernail
Co-Founder & CEO at Plantd/SpaceX Retired
- Role
- Co-founder and CEO at Plantd
- Location
- Durham, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nathan Silvernail
11 successful test flights on NASA\'s reduced gravity aircraft. Light Sport Pilot — fixed wing, ultralight trikes, gyrocopters, and gliders.Background in aerospace manufacturing spanning reusable launch vehicles and manned spacecraft, including tooling development, process optimization, and high-pressure system design, build, and test. Track record of delivering critical hardware solutions under tight schedule constraints with cross-functional teams.Currently at Plantd, leading manufacturing operations for structural building panels — from raw material processing through end-of-line production. Responsibilities include end-to-end production modeling, yield optimization, process efficiency analysis, and scaling operations from R&D to full production. Bringing aerospace-grade rigor to the built environment.
Experience
Co-founder and CEO
May 2021 — Present · Durham, NC, US
Education
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
2010 — 2013
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Bachelor's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2006 — 2010
Skills
- Welding
- Systems Engineering
- Cnc Manufacturing
- Lathe
- Engineering
- Catia
- Cnc Programming
- Labview
- Space Systems
- Testing
- Matlab
- Ansys
- Aerodynamics
- Finite Element Analysis
- Cad/Cam
- Design for Manufacturing
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (Cfd)
- Cfd
- Aerospace Engineering
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Composites
- Cnc Operation
- Simulations
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