Aerospace
10 GE Aerospace engineering leaders
These ten people hold or have held director, executive director and vice president engineering roles at GE Aerospace, across defense and systems, engine programs, product support, digital engineering and software. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams at an aircraft engine maker.
Professionals to explore
01—10Darin DiTommaso
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering GE Aerospace Defense and Systems · GE Aerospace
Vice President of Engineering GE Aerospace Defense and Systems since July 2023, leading, according to the profile, GE Aerospace's Defense and Systems engineering team. Darin DiTommaso was formerly Vice President Of Engineering GE Edison Works at GE (2021–2023), Vice President Military Engineering at GE Aerospace (2019–2020) and GM Advanced Technology Operation at GE Aerospace (2018–2019).
Joel Kirk
LinkedInExperience: Executive Leader - Systems Engineering · GE Aerospace
Executive Leader - Systems Engineering at GE Aerospace since April 2024, a role the listing tags at director level. Joel Kirk's other GE Aerospace roles include Executive Leader - Advanced Systems Design & Technology (2019–2021), Program Leader - Additive Design Technology (2016–2018) and Engineering Manager - New Product Turbine Design (2013–2015).
Michael McCarren
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director - GE9X Systems Engineering · GE Aerospace
Executive Director - GE9X Systems Engineering at GE Aerospace since October 2025, and Executive - Turbine Airfoils Value Stream Integration Leader there since June 2024, both listed as current. Michael McCarren's other GE Aerospace roles include Executive - LEAP Life Cycle Engineering (2020–2024) and Executive - GE90 GP7200 Life Cycle Engineering (2017–2020).
Nandakumar Devanathan
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director - Software Engineering · GE Aerospace
Sr Director - Software Engineering at GE Aerospace since May 2026, based in the Greater Boston area. Nandakumar Devanathan was formerly Senior Director of Software Engineering at GE Aerospace (2024–2025), and Senior Director of Software Engineering (2021–2024) and Senior Director of Collaboration Technologies (2015–2021) at GE.
Praveen Jain
LinkedInExperience: GE90 GP CF6 Product Support Engineering Director · GE Aerospace
GE90 GP CF6 Product Support Engineering Director at GE Aerospace since January 2026, leading, according to the profile, a global product support engineering team focused on time-on-wing for customers. Praveen Jain was also GE90 and GP CTP leader at GE Aerospace (2023–2025), and Section Manager Services Engineering & EMS India (2019–2023) at GE Aerospace.
Rachel Post
LinkedInExperience: Director - Software Engineering · GE Aerospace
Director - Software Engineering at GE Aerospace since October 2022, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rachel Post was formerly Sr Manager - Software Engineering (2020–2022) and Staff Software Engineer (2019–2020) at GE Aerospace, and GE Oil & Gas Baker Hughes- Sogeti Cloud Migration Lead at Sogeti (2013–2018).
Robert Kahn
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director - Software Engineering · GE Aerospace
Senior Director - Software Engineering at GE Aerospace since March 2018; the profile describes partnering with product engineering, cyber security and Microsoft to lead Aviation Digital's transformation to a secure product suite on Microsoft Azure. Robert Kahn's former GE Aerospace roles include Director - Software Engineering (2016–2018) and IT Program Manager - Rapid Data Forensics (2013–2016).
Sebastian Belcher
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Enterprise Application Engineering · GE Aerospace
Senior Director Enterprise Application Engineering at GE Aerospace since March 2021, and VP of Technology, Aerospace Carbon Solutions at GE Aerospace since April 2025, both listed as current. Sebastian Belcher was formerly Director Software Engineering (2018–2021), Digital Technology Solutions Manager (2016–2018) and Platforms Leader EMEA (2013–2016) at GE.
Shawn Pearson
LinkedInExperience: GEnx Engineering Director · GE Aerospace
Former GEnx Engineering Director at GE Aerospace (April 2018 to May 2020). Since January 2021 Shawn Pearson has been Engineering Director at GE Edison Works at GE, leading, according to the profile, an engineering team responsible for Advanced Combat Engine development. Other roles include Design Engineering Manager at GE Aerospace (2012–2016).
Shriram Barve
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Digital Engineering Solutions · GE Aerospace
Senior Director, Digital Engineering Solutions at GE Aerospace since October 2019, in Bengaluru, leading, according to the profile, Digital Engineering solutions teams working on PLM, Model Based Enterprise, CAD tools, Cost tools and Web tools. Former GE Aerospace roles include Mission Leader, Additive Manufacturing, GE India Technology Center (2018–2019) and Senior Engineering Section Manager, Military, Propulsion, & Power Engineering (2016–2018).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you split engineering ownership between engine programs and functional systems engineering groups?
- 02What does it take to keep a mature engine fleet reliable while new engine programs compete for engineering talent?
- 03How should digital engineering tools such as PLM and model-based engineering be rolled out across a large engineering organization?
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