SysGit is committed to supporting the adoption of Agile Hardware Development across the Defense Industrial Base by treating Hardware as Software.
We’re a cross-functional team of hardware and software engineers that believes in the power of bringing many teams together to solve big problems, and puts in the hard work that propels a product to launch.
Our Leadership Team
Steve Massey
CEO, Co-Founder
Steve Massey is the Co-Founder and CEO of SysGit. As a software engineer at Slingshot Aerospace and mission integration engineer at SpaceX, Steve developed a passion for building tools and processes to support consensus and collaboration across teams, and between organizations.
Steve worked at SpaceX from Falcon 9 flight four to the first Heavy, serving in the only department that managed an interface with an outside organization. He supported the launch of over two dozen spacecraft to orbit. This included serving as Mission Manager for the F9-20 ORBCOMM-2 launch campaign, which successfully delivered 11 OG2 spacecraft to orbit, with the first stage returning to land.
At Slingshot Aerospace, he led the development of the Edge platform, performing sensor fusion across visible light, IR, and RF sensors to provide tactically relevant and actionable insights to the warfighter on remote platforms.
Zeke Brechtel
CTO, Co-Founder
Zeke Brechtel is the Co-founder and CTO of SysGit. An aerospace engineer by training, Zeke previously worked in mission management at SpaceX, supporting Falcon 9 launches and the Hyperloop.
At SpaceX, Zeke developed a facility for technical communication across organizations, and a familiarity with interactions between industry and the federal government. He supported several winning proposals to the federal government that provided artifacts and documentation necessary to garner support.
Solving Hard Problems
From aerospace and defense to healthcare and construction, the SysGit team has designed, tested, and shipped useful products that pushed further.
Here’s a sampling of the projects we’ve worked on:
SpaceX: F9-20 ORBCOMM-2
Slingshot Aerospace: Edge platform
Slingshot Aerospace + SpaceX + OneWeb: Communication patterns between satellites and human operators
Turnitin: First linguistic machine learning platform
Gradescope: First mobile app for online grading
Eaton: Natural disaster response technology
U.S. Navy: Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 30 (VX 30)
