FOUNDER & CEOBekzad Dzhanpolatov
Leads strategy, financing, partnerships and customer development, and coordinates the SI-P1 engineering program. Hands-on experience in data centres, including server and network infrastructure.
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Founder-led,
with a fractional CTO.
Satellite Inference is an early-stage company. The founder runs the company and coordinates the SI-P1 program; the fractional CTO leads payload architecture, radiation risk and qualification planning; a full-time technical cofounder will lead the build.
01 / PEOPLE
Who is building it.
FOUNDER & CEO
FRACTIONAL CTODr Rajan Bedi
Twenty-five years in space electronics. Founder and CEO of Spacechips (UK, 2014), with more than 70 clients in 25 countries. Previously headed mixed-signal space electronics at Airbus Defence & Space for twelve years (Alphasat, Sentinel-1). PhD, University of Edinburgh.
At Satellite Inference he leads SI-P1 architecture, radiation risk, qualification planning and technical review.
In active search
Full-time, to lead the build of SI Runtime and the SI-P1 pathfinder with the founder and the fractional CTO. You have taken spacecraft hardware through integration, qualification and flight.
The fractional CTO role is agreed; the appointment takes effect when Satellite Inference Inc. is formed and the agreement is signed. Advisors, customers and partners are named only once agreements are signed.
02 / HOW WE WORK
A small core, specialists when needed.
- NOW
Founder and fractional CTO
The founder runs the program, partners and customers; payload architecture and qualification plans are reviewed by an engineer with twenty-five years in space electronics.
- M1–4
Technical cofounder, full-time
Requirements, host interface and supplier quotations for SI-P1, then the build.
- M4
Flight-software engineer
SI Runtime on representative hardware and the Orbit-0 experiment.
- AS NEEDED
Specialist contractors
Avionics, thermal, radiation and machine learning, under IP-assignment agreements.
- BY QUOTE
Test labs and host operators
Chosen through competitive quotations, after checking each facility's qualifications and accreditation.
Timings are in months from the program start and may change.