Marvi Matos Rodriguez
Director, Design Practices, Engineering Strategy and Operations — The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington)
Seattle, Washington
✓ Verified current as of 2026-09-24
WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DO
She leads an enterprise-wide team at Boeing that consolidates design practices, lessons learned, recommendations, and engineering mandates across the company's commercial airplane programs.
HOW THEY ENTERED THE INDUSTRY
Recruited by Boeing at her alma mater, the University of Puerto Rico, she joined in 2010 and did STEM outreach for six years, then moved to another aerospace company leading a rocket engineering team. She returned to Boeing in April 2020.
EDUCATION
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico; Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
CONNECTED TO YOUR PATH
She grew up a Jíbara from Jayuya, Puerto Rico, and got her start in aerospace through a campus recruiting visit to her own university — proof that the path in doesn't have to start somewhere famous.
EXPLICACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL
Directora de ingeniería en Boeing, originaria de Jayuya, Puerto Rico, que lidera las prácticas de diseño de toda la empresa y fue nombrada más tarde a la Junta Nacional de Ciencias de EE. UU.
SOURCES
- 'I know I have to break the stereotypes' — Boeing
- HENAAC Award winner joins National Science Board — Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology
