Graham Bogda

Graham Bogda has over 14 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, starting with an internship at Pentair in 2007 and including a graduate research assistant role at Northern Illinois University from 2009-2011. Bogda also worked at Ideal Industries as a manufacturing engineering intern from May-December 2008. From 2011-2014, they were a test engineer/Six Sigma manager at SKF Group before joining SpaceX in 2014 as a manufacturing engineer for Crew and Cargo Dragon mechanisms. Graham later became lead manufacturing engineer for Dragon mechanisms before being promoted to production manager for Dragon Mechanical Subassemblies in December 2017. In July 2019, they became manufacturing engineering manager for Dragon Subsystems, where they led a team in enabling subassembly production to achieve deliveries that support aggressive manifest. Bogda joined Venturi Astrolab, Inc. as a manufacturing engineering manager in 2021.

Graham Bogda obtained a Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from Northern Illinois University in the years 2005 to 2009. Later, they pursued a Master of Science degree in Industrial Management from the same university from 2009 to 2011.