A former employee of the company said that engineers used to manually input data about rocket part tests into spreadsheets.
The space exploration company has a manufacturing engineer named Karan Talati. He told Insider that the process for testing rocket parts was very slow because of manual procedures.
He said that back then, engineers would manually log rocket part test data into spreadsheets before getting other engineers to verify its accuracy so nobody would trust the spreadsheets.
The processes of changing the thickness of a rocket part and improving the design came to a standstill because of very controlled and rigid processes.
The run-of-the-mill tests could take up to three hours because of the large number of parts per rocket. He said that part of his job was to automate information bottlenecks to cut testing times.
The company didn't reply to Insider's request for comment.
"That intense approach is something that's with me forever, because it was a lot of work and a lot of intensity," he said.
He cofounding First Resonance after leaving the company and working in machine learning. A lot of experience and pain was what led to the creation of First Resonance.
He said that he tried to carry on the positive qualities that came with working at SpaceX, such as good communication and accepting failure.
The operating system developed by First Resonance is intended to help employees, especially engineers, collaborate and speed up decision-making.
