Small Talk With Emiliano Bonilla, CEO and Co-Founder of Synnax

Emiliano Bonilla, CEO and co-founder of Synnax, describes the company as a real-time hardware control and data platform designed for demanding applications such as rocket engine testing, where legacy workflows often rely on spreadsheets and poorly organized multi-terabyte data files. Drawing on his experience building aerospace ground software at Firefly Aerospace, Bonilla founded Synnax to help teams collect, organize, review, and act on sensor data more quickly, reducing risks in environments where millisecond-level failures can damage costly hardware. Synnax developed Arc, a simplified real-time programming language, after finding Excel unsuitable for complex control logic and Python insufficiently fast and safe for engine control. The team uses JetBrains tools including GoLand, CLion, and PyCharm, alongside Claude Code, particularly valuing integrated debugging and code-review capabilities. While aerospace remains its primary market, Synnax is expanding into cryogenic control for quantum computing, oil and gas, and manufacturing, and is developing automated anomaly detection to improve data review. The interview also outlines JetBrains Startup Program eligibility, application review timing, and the types of IDE, AI, team, and learning products available to participants.

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