SpaceX
Riddhi Kapasi is a seasoned Sr FPGA/ASIC Design Verification Engineer at SpaceX, focusing on the development of bug-free ASICs for Starlink internet constellations since December 2021. Prior experience includes a role as a Design Verification Engineer at Amazon from April 2021 to November 2022, and a notable tenure at Intel Corporation from August 2016 to April 2021 as a Staff Design Verification Engineer, having initially joined the company as a Hardware Engineer through its acquisition of another firm. Riddhi Kapasi began a career in verification at Cavium Networks from February 2011 to August 2016, advancing from Senior Verification Engineer to ASIC Design Engineer, where responsibilities included developing comprehensive verification plans and automating design processes. Riddhi Kapasi's career started with an internship at Wavesat in 2010, involving verification tasks and software modelling. Riddhi Kapasi holds a Master's degree in Electronics, VLSI from the University of Illinois Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
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SpaceX
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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. SpaceX believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access. The majority of the launch cost comes from building the rocket, which historically has flown only once. Compare that to a commercial airliner – each new plane costs about the same as Falcon 9 but can fly multiple times per day and conduct tens of thousands of flights over its lifetime. Following the commercial model, a rapidly reusable space launch vehicle could reduce the cost of traveling to space by a hundredfold. While most rockets are designed to burn up on reentry, SpaceX rockets can not only withstand reentry but can also successfully land back on Earth and refly again. SpaceX’s family of Falcon launch vehicles are the first and only orbital class rockets capable of reflight. Depending on the performance required for the mission, Falcon lands on one of our autonomous spaceport droneships out on the ocean or one of our landing zones near our launch pads.