Relativity Names Scott Van Vliet As SVP Of Software Engineering And Reveals Plans For “New Factory Operating System” – Space Ref
Relativity Names Scott Van Vliet As SVP Of Software Engineering And Reveals Plans For “New Factory Operating System”
Press Release
From: Relativity Space Posted: Monday, January 3, 2022
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Relativity Names Scott Van Vliet As SVP Of Software Engineering And Reveals Plans For “New Factory Operating System”
Press Release
From: Relativity Space
Posted: Monday, January 3, 2022
Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print entire rockets and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, is announcing a significant investment in the future of its software-driven manufacturing platform through the hiring of Scott Van Vliet, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering.
In his new role, Scott will lead the Integrated Software and Additive Manufacturing teams, overseeing 150+ employees today and doubling the team before the end of the year to expand Relativity’s ‘Factory Operating System.’ Relativity’s ‘Factory Operating System’ is unified platform that integrates data collection, correlation, machine learning, visualization, and workflow tools to enable faster rates of compounding progress across Relativity’s Stargate printers, production factories, test and launch infrastructure, and rocket development. With its software division representing a significant and growing portion of the company’s talent, Relativity recently surpassed 600 employees in total. With teams across its Long Beach, Vandenberg, Seattle, Washington D.C., Stennis, and Cape Canaveral locations, Relativity is scaling its revolutionary, large scale approach to 3D printing and automation to build a new tech stack for aerospace manufacturing — one capable of building rockets and other products.
Scott most recently served as Corporate VP at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the real-time communications and collaboration platform powering Microsoft Teams. Scott’s work at Microsoft helped the company enable hundreds of millions of customers to have billions of conversations every day. As an industry leader with 20+ years experience building new tech products, Scott also worked at Amazon, leading its Irvine campus to spearhead development of Amazon Echo devices, new experiences with Alexa and cloud capabilities for Alexa Voice Service.
“We’re on a mission to create an entirely new tech stack for aerospace manufacturing,” said Tim Ellis, Cofounder and CEO of Relativity. “Building on six years of development to date, with Scott’s leadership we’re now ready to take our in-house developed tools to the next level and create an entire Factory Operating System to transform aerospace through data, machine learning, and an entirely new way of developing products. It is inevitable that more industries will be disrupted via software, and Relativity is blazing a new path for rockets and aerospace on route to building humanity’s multiplanetary future on Mars. We were very intentional with who we brought on to lead this core unit of our business. On top of being a force of nature in the industry with 20+ years building …….
