Andrew Winkler

Andrew Winkler has over 20 years of systems and software engineering experience working in the management, design, development, and fielding of large-scale real time combat systems. He held positions of increasing responsibility from systems engineer to lead system architect for the US Navy’s $260M Aegis Open Architecture program to technical director for F-35’s $925M Open System Computing Architecture Refresh effort. Over the course of his career, he has developed extensive multi-discipline experience across software, hardware, program management and planning, sensors, command and control systems, weapon systems and communication systems across both surface and airborne platforms. Andrew founded Thunderbolt Software in 2016 and has led it through an incredible period of growth culminating in ranking 94th on Inc. 5000’s 2020 fastest growing private companies.