Austin Spiegel

Austin Spiegel is the co-founder of Sift, where he leads engineering, technical strategy, and go-to-market. He studied computer science at the University of Southern California before joining SpaceX, where he spent nearly five years building mission-critical software across rocket and spacecraft manufacturing, and tools for developing and operating the Starlink satellite constellation. After a year as a software engineering manager at Riot Games, Austin reconnected with co-founder Karthik Gollapudi and began building Sift from the conviction that the data infrastructure behind SpaceX’s engineering culture should be available to every hardware company. He is based in Los Angeles.