Armen Arakelyan

Co-Founder / CTO @ Ornadyne

Co-founder

Ornadyne· Spring 2026🇺🇸 Burbank, California, United States

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2026Co-founder· Ornadyne

Founder · since 2026

Company

Ornadyne

Role

Co-Founder / CTO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Los Angeles, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Ornadyne

We're building robot birds for surveillance.

Spring 2026

Experience

Career

Ornadyne
Co-founder
Co-Founder / CTO · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2026
SpaceX
Components Engineer · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2025 – 2026
2025
USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory
Machining Team Lead · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2023 – 2025
2023
USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory
Manufacturing and Propulsion Engineer · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2021 – 2023
2021
Meggitt
Mechanical/Electrical Engineering Intern · Simi Valley, California, United States · 2023
2023

Bio

Co-founder & CTO at Ornadyne, building autonomous flapping-wing aircraft. Previously a Starship components engineer at SpaceX. Before that, I led machining at USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory at the University of Southern California, helping the team set the amateur rocketry altitude world record at 144 km.