Senior Technical Program Manager
Feb 2025 – PresentAnduril Industries · Costa Mesa, CA
Hi, I'm Kurt
Kurt Zepeda
Senior Technical Program Manager at Anduril Industries, working across engineering, product, and operations. Formerly a nuclear-trained officer in the U.S. Navy.
Costa Mesa, California
About
I'm a Technical Program Manager at Anduril Industries, where I work across engineering, product, and operations to ship internal tools and platform capabilities. Before Anduril, I served just over five years as a nuclear-trained officer in the U.S. Navy, leading navigation and information warfare systems divisions aboard a submarine and managing radiological controls at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Experience
Senior Digital Engineer
Jan 2024 – Feb 2025Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, CA
Global Product Manager
Jul 2023 – Dec 2023QSA Global, Inc. · Burlington, MA
- Developed two new product roadmaps for portable X-ray screening technology based on customer and sales feedback.
- Championed cross-team engineering and R&D projects spanning short-term retention and long-term market growth.
- Managed four vendor relationships, including SOW/NDA development and external stakeholder communications.
Navigation Systems / Information Warfare Systems Division Officer
Jun 2021 – Jul 2023U.S. Navy · Portsmouth, NH
- Built two scheduling algorithms (Python on Google Cloud, JS/Bootstrap frontend on Firebase) that cut schedule production time by 75%.
- Audited and managed 13 IT specialists and navigation electronics technicians across classified and unclassified LAN systems.
- Led the revision of 100+ pages of navigational doctrine and certified the piloting crew.
Chemistry and Radiological Controls Officer
May 2020 – Jun 2021U.S. Navy · Portsmouth, NH
- Reviewed and approved 15+ radiologically intensive work packages, reducing personnel exposure by 22%.
- Led 45+ hours of engineering training for 80 nuclear-trained sailors, cutting radiological mishaps by 30%.
- Supervised turnover of radiological control of a multi-million dollar reactor plant to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Junior Officer, Nuclear Power Training
May 2018 – May 2020U.S. Navy · Charleston, SC
- Graduated with honors from Naval Nuclear Power Training Command and Naval Nuclear Prototype Training Command. GPA: 3.62/4.00.
Skills
Program & Product
Technical Program Management
Program Management
Product Management
Team Leadership
Technical
Python
JavaScript
APIs
Domain
Defense Tech
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