Ex-SpaceX Dragon Capsule software lead, Karthik Gollapudi, built two-fault-tolerant systems that flew astronauts to the ISS. He left to found Sift, an AI platform that automates testing, manufacturing and observability for rockets, rovers and autonomous fleets. 

This episode covers: 

• SpaceX’s young staff & the push for automating everything. 

• Same job in 12 months = failure.  

• Bootstrapping a tech startup team and funding.