The People

Built by people who saw the gap and decided to close it.

Liminal Stratum is an early-stage defense technology company. We are a small, focused team moving fast. Every person here owns a critical part of the mission.

Gavin Worrell

Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer

Gavin founded Liminal Stratum after independently identifying a critical structural gap in unmanned systems capability at the air-sea domain boundary — and deciding no one else was going to close it fast enough.

He leads all engineering development, company strategy, and program direction. Before Liminal Stratum, he founded Locked In Athletics at 16, building it into a nationally recognized athletic brand with clients including the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Jamaican National Team. He is a first-year Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Colorado Boulder, carrying a 4.0 GPA with a minor in Business Finance, and serves on CU Boulder's Formula SAE team.

Mechanical EngineeringCU BoulderFormula SAEDefense SystemsEntrepreneurship

Core Team

The engineers behind the build.

Ayush Ganapathy

Software & Autonomy Lead Engineer

Ayush leads software and autonomy development at Liminal Stratum, architecting the flight, control, and decision-making systems that let our platforms operate intelligently at the air-sea domain boundary.

He studies Computational Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he works at the intersection of high-performance computing, modeling, and real-world systems — bringing rigorous computational methods to every layer of the autonomy stack.

Computational EngineeringUT AustinAutonomySoftware

Carter Daniel

Mechanical Systems Engineer

Carter drives mechanical systems engineering at Liminal Stratum, leading the structural design, mechanisms, and physical integration that turn our concepts into robust, field-ready hardware.

He is a Mechanical Engineering major at Stanford University, where he applies a systems-level approach to design — balancing performance, manufacturability, and reliability across every subsystem he touches.

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Careers

The team is growing.

Liminal Stratum is actively recruiting engineers, autonomy researchers, and defense-domain contributors who want to work on the hardest problem in unmanned systems. We are building across mechanical engineering, electronics, software autonomy, and systems integration. If you want to work on something that doesn't exist yet — reach out.