Portrait of Daniel Wiese

Pilot · Engineer · Builder

Daniel Wiese

Commercial pilot and Gold Seal CFII / MEI / AGI / IGI.

Dallas, TX

Aviation Experience

Experience flying for more than fifteen years across more than a dozen different aircraft types, and a variety of avionics packages.

  • 1,442 total time
  • 1,378 PIC
  • 335 XC
  • 116 actual / simulated instrument
  • 51 AMEL
CFICFIIMEIAGIIGIGold Seal Instructor

Work Experience

CAE

2026 — Present

Supporting Crew Member · Learjet 40/45

Responsible for delivering exceptional right seat support to clients participating in FAA-approved 14 CFR 142 curriculum courses in the Learjet 40/45.

Coast Flight Training

2024 — Present

Flight Instructor & Check Airman

Training pilots across private, instrument, commercial, and instructor certificates.

Blue Origin

2023 — Present

Senior Manager, Avionics, GNC & Electronics

Leading guidance, navigation, control, and simulation software for the Lunar Transporter vehicle program, supporting NASA's Artemis V mission.

WHOOP

2020 — 2022

Director of R&D

Built and led a multidisciplinary research and development organization following WHOOP's acquisition of Humon.

Humon

2016 — 2020

Co-founder & CTO

Co-founded a wearable technology company and led development from sensing hardware through software and product delivery.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2016

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

University of California, Davis

2011

B.S., Mechanical Engineering · B.S., Aerospace Science & Engineering