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Podcast: The EEcosystem Podcast
Episode: First Principles, SpaceX Lessons, and the Future of PCB Design with AI
Description: What happens when a SpaceX engineer takes on one of the toughest problems in electronics?
In this episode, Quilter CEO Sergiy Nesterenko shares how first-principles thinking and lessons from his time at SpaceX led him to tackle the decades-old bottleneck in PCB design: manual layout.
From his triple major at Berkeley to building avionics for Falcon 9, Sergiy brings unique insights into why auto-routers failed, how reinforcement learning changes the game, and what the future of PCB design with AI might look like.
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