2x founder

Matt Gialich

Co-Founder and CEO at AstroForge (YC W22)

Co-founder

AstroForge· Winter 2022Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

in LinkedIn

2022Co-founder· AstroForge

Founder · since 2021

Company

AstroForge

Role

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AstroForge

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

Huntington Beach

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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AstroForge

We Mine Asteroids

Winter 2022

Experience

Career

AstroForge
Co-founder
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AstroForge · Huntington Beach · 2022 – Present
2022
Ex Scientia Technologies
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CEO at Ex Scientia · Claremont, California, United States · 2021 – 2022
2021
Bird
Director of Embedded Engineering · Santa Monica, California, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Bird
Sr. Manager of Firmware · 2019 – 2020
2019
Virgin Orbit
Sr Manager of Software and GNC · Long Beach · 2017 – 2019
2017
Virgin Galactic
Sr. Manager of Avionics Software and Test · Long Beach · 2016 – 2017
2016
Virgin Galactic
Manager - Avionics Software and Test · Long Beach · 2016
2016
Virgin Galactic
Manager - Avionics Software Engineering · Long Beach · 2016
2016
Virgin Galactic
Lead Software Engineer, Advanced Development · Long Beach · 2015 – 2016
2015
Virgin Galactic
Software Engineer · Long Beach · 2015
2015
Matternet Inc.
Navigation Engineer · Menlo Park Ca · 2014 – 2015
2014
Toyon Research Corporation
Analyst · Goleta CA · 2012 – 2014
2012
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
GSFC Lunar & Planetary Science Academy Internship · Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, Maryland · 2011
2011
UPS
Plant Engineering Supervisor · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · 2008 – 2010
2008

Bio

Matt is an experienced engineering leader with over a decade of leading high-performing engineering teams. At Virgin Orbit, he was responsible for building and hiring all aspects of Avionics and led the flight software and GNC teams during his tenure. After Virgin, he joined Bird scooters as their Director of Vehicle Software and led that team through the development of the Bird 2 and 3 vehicles.