Maximillian Bhatti
Co-Founder at Basalt (YC W24)
Experience
Career
2023Basalt
Co-founderCo-Founder, CEO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2023 – Present
2023SpaceX
Engineering Intern - Starship · Hawthorne, California, United States · 2023
2021Rocket Project at UCLA
Hybrid Rocket Propulsion Lead · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2021 – 2022
2022The Aerospace Corporation
Technical Intern II · El Segundo, California, United States · 2022
2020Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Assistant - Spacecraft · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2020 – 2022
2018Caltech
Plasma Physics Intern · Pasadena, California, United States · 2018 – 2020
2017Caltech
CSA Laboratory Student · Pasadena, California, United States · 2017 – 2018
Bio
CEO & Co-Founder of Basalt // I was working at Caltech’s fusion lab when I was hired out of high school to work at MIT AeroAstro on their CubeSat mission. Since then, I’ve spent stints at The Aerospace Corporation and SpaceX working on distributed space systems and the American moon landing. Most recently, I dropped out to build Basalt. My hobbies include hiking and buying infinite whiteboards.