In this episode of Beats & Bolts with Paulina, Paulina Dubas sits down with Gert Villemos, CTO & CISO at LeanSpace, a leader with 20+ years of experience building and operating mission-critical space systems that still run European satellites today.We talked about:

• Why Year-1 architecture decisions are the most expensive ones you’ll ever make

• How cloud lock-in quietly costs companies years of migration

• Why most security failures are basic

• How compliance can unlock deals instead of slowing teams down

• Where AI creates new lock-ins if your processes aren’t ready

• Why team design matters more than tools for speed and quality