Ep. 16 - Girl, Don’t Go to Med School — Pick Automation (Swetha)
· 42 min · S1 E16 · Explicit
Episode Ep. 16 - Girl, Don’t Go to Med School — Pick Automation (Swetha)
Swetha is Queen
This week on Womanufacturing, Alicia and Justine sit down with someone very special: former coworker, naming-genius of the podcast, recent UCLA grad, and now automation powerhouse — Swetha.
Swetha shares her journey from confused high-school STEM kid to mechanical engineering major to discovering her love for automation and systems-level thinking. We talk internships, owning entire systems as a new grad, what healthy mentorship looks like, the magic of scrappy dev work, and the thrill of bringing machines to life.
She also gives an honest look at stepping into her first full-time role in automation at SpaceX — the culture, the mentors, the “fail safe and fail fast” mindset, and the responsibility of building things that will live far beyond the intern era.
This episode is packed with wisdom from a fresh engineer who’s already thinking like a seasoned systems lead. Swetha is insightful, humble, hilarious — and absolutely a queen.
If you're early in your career, mentoring someone, or just love hearing women take up space in engineering, this one will light you up.
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