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Aman Gottumukkala joins Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI
The Indian-origin engineer built Firebender, an AI coding assistant with a team of three, which generated millions in revenue.
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Rwittika Chakraborty - Mon, 16, Mar 2026
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Aman Gottumukkala, a Texas-based software engineer who founded the AI coding startup Firebender. / X/@AmanGotchu
Aman Gottumukkala, a Texas-based software engineer who founded the AI coding startup Firebender, has announced that he is joining SpaceX designs, which manufactures and launches rockets and spacecraft, and xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
The Indian-origin engineer built Firebender, an AI coding assistant designed especially for Android developers, with a team consisting of three people, and the startup generated millions in revenue.
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Firebender helps programmers write, manage, and organise their code more efficiently.
Gottumukkala took to X to announce his new venture and wrote,
“I'm joining @SpaceX and @xai to build the best coding AI. For the last couple years I founded the most widely used coding agent for Android, scaling it to millions in revenue with a team of 3.”
“I've watched model capabilities compound at a staggering rate and we're clearly on the brink of recursive superintelligence. This is the most important problem to solve in history and requires an immense amount of resources to realize,” he added.
I'm joining @SpaceX and @xai to build the best coding AI.
— Aman Gottumukkala (@AmanGotchu) March 15, 2026
For the last couple years I founded the most widely used coding agent for Android, scaling it to millions in revenue with a team of 3.
I've watched model capabilities compound at a staggering rate and we're clearly on…
Gottumukkala hailed xAI, referring to it as “the place” to build the future, while mentioning plans of ‘building the winning team,’ and wrote,
“xAI is the place to build the future. Frontier compute, extraordinary talent, and a strong hold on physical intelligence and space. If you want to focus on executing towards the most important problems of our time, DM me. We're in challenger mode and we are building the winning team.”
Gottumukkala’s work in xAI will focus on building coding AI tools to assist developers in writing programs, solving complex problems, and automating parts of software development.
Gottumukkala studied computer science at Texas A&M University, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree between 2017 and 2021. Prior to that, he attended the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science.
According to his LinkedIn, Gottumukkala has previously worked as a software engineer at Paradigm and was also chosen as a KP Fellow through the Kleiner Perkins Fellowship.
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