EMILIANO BONILLA

Emiliano Bonilla is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synnax, a business-to-business infrastructure startup based in Denver, Colorado. At the three-person company, which launched as part of a Summer 2024 cohort, he drives corporate strategy, operational scaling, and the development of distributed database tools for hardware operations. Previously, Bonilla led a specialized engineering team at Firefly Aerospace, where he developed critical data processing software for the Alpha rocket program to support its successful orbital launches. His earlier technical experience includes engineering autonomous electric vehicle prototypes for the automotive sector and building core financial software systems for various European banking startups. Educated as a classically trained aerospace engineer, Bonilla currently focuses on bridging the gap between hardware and software by building advanced time-series data acquisition and analytics infrastructure for the aerospace, marine, and energy sectors.