United StatesBrian Schimpf
Studied operations research and industrial engineering at Cornell University, where he founded and led the school's autonomous vehicle research program and competed in DARPA's Grand Challenge. Was an early hire at Palantir Technologies, spending nearly a decade there and rising to Director of Engineering while building the Foundry product now deployed across government and industry. Co-founded Anduril alongside Palmer Luckey, leveraging that Palantir-era experience in government software and Cornell-rooted work in autonomy. A self-described "lifelong Democrat," he has publicly argued that the US defense industry needs Silicon Valley's technology to maintain military superiority, an unusual political stance in a tech sector that often avoids defense work.
