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10 United Airlines engineering leaders
These ten current and former United Airlines engineering leaders hold or held director and managing director roles across powerplant, fleet structures, interiors and cabin systems, aircraft programs, flight operations engineering, cloud platforms, and data and AI engineering. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at United Airlines from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Amy O'Dell
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director Services & Powerplant Engineering · United Airlines
Managing Director Services & Powerplant Engineering at United Airlines since March 2025, based in the Chicago area. Amy O'Dell was Director of Powerplant Engineering (2024–2025), Director of Maintenance Programs (2022–2024), Senior Manager Technical Data Management (2021–2022) and Powerplant Engineer (2017–2021) at United.
Angela Wray
LinkedInExperience: Director - Aircraft Programs Engineering · United Airlines
Director - Aircraft Programs Engineering at United Airlines since July 2024, based in the Seattle area. Angela Wray also held United roles as Senior Manager - Aircraft Inductions (2023–2024), Principal Engineer - New Aircraft (2021–2023), Lead Engineer - Maintenance Programs (2020–2021) and Senior Product Engineer (2018–2020).
Araseli Cerda, MS, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Director, Cloud and Platform Engineering · United Airlines
Director, Cloud and Platform Engineering at United Airlines since August 2024, based in the Chicago area. Araseli Cerda was Director of Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, IT Service Management and Cloud Automated Services at CDW (2022–2024), and earlier Senior Manager, DevOps and SRE Engineering (2021–2022) and Manager, DevOps Engineering (2018–2021) at CDW.
Christopher Hartman
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, Aircraft and Customer Experience Engineering · United Airlines
Managing Director, Aircraft and Customer Experience Engineering at United Airlines since December 2023, based in Chicago. Christopher Hartman was Managing Director, Fleet Engineering (2020–2023), Managing Director, Product Engineering (2013–2020) and Director, Interiors Engineering (2011–2013) at United, and Senior Manager, Interiors Engineering at Continental Airlines (2008–2011).
Depinder K.
LinkedInExperience: Director, Data and AI Engineering · United Airlines
Director, Data and AI Engineering at United Airlines since November 2025, based in Gurugram, India. Depinder K. was Director of Engineering, Enterprise Data Management & Governance at Expedia Group (2022–2025), and earlier Sr. Manager, Database Platforms (2020–2022) and Manager, Data Engineering (2017–2020) at Expedia Group.
Douglas Stoltz
LinkedInExperience: Director of Cabin Systems Engineering · United Airlines
Director of Cabin Systems Engineering at United Airlines since June 2024, and also listed as Director of Interiors Engineering at United since June 2020, a role the profile describes as ensuring safety and compliance. Both Director titles are listed as current, with the Cabin Systems role at Director level in the engineering and technical department.
Greg Simmons
LinkedInExperience: Former Director Structures Engineering · United Airlines
Former Director Structures Engineering at United Airlines (December 2018 to January 2026), based in Chicago and now retired. Greg Simmons was Lead Principal Engineer (2014–2018), Senior Engineer Avionics (2013–2014) and Project Engineer Avionics (2011–2013) at United Airlines.
John Apostol
LinkedInExperience: Director - Powerplant Engineering · United Airlines
Director - Powerplant Engineering at United Airlines since June 2025, based in Chicago. John Apostol was Senior Manager - 777 Fleet & DMCC (2023–2025), Senior Manager - Widebody Powerplant (2021–2023), Principal Engineer - GEnx Program (2019–2021) and Lead Engineer - GEnx Program (2014–2019) at American Airlines.
Mark Schweitzer
LinkedInExperience: Director - Fleet Structures Engineering · United Airlines
Director - Fleet Structures Engineering at United Airlines since 2026, with the role listed in Chicago at Director level in the engineering and technical department. Mark Schweitzer was Manager Engineering - Fleet Structures 737 757 (2019–2026) and Principal Engineer - Fleet Structures (2019) at United, and Principal Engineer at STS Engineering Solutions (2014–2019).
Ryan Vas
LinkedInExperience: Director, Flight Operations Engineering and Analysis · United Airlines
Director, Flight Operations Engineering and Analysis at United Airlines since August 2024, leading flight operations engineering and analysis, per the profile. Ryan Vas was Manager, Flight Operations - Performance Engineering and Fleet Support Engineering at Boeing (2022–2024) and Airplane Performance and Operations Engineer at Southwest Airlines (2016–2018).
Choose the right perspective
Pick a technical operations leader such as powerplant, structures or aircraft programs for fleet and maintenance questions, an interiors or cabin systems leader for onboard product questions, and a cloud or data engineering leader for software and platform questions. Note who is current and who has moved on.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does an airline engineering team manage engine reliability and maintenance programs across a large fleet?
- 02What goes into engineering new cabin interiors and bringing new aircraft into service?
- 03How are airlines building cloud and data platforms to support operations?
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