Robotics
End-to-Endgame
End-to-end learning changes where the engineering happens, but it does not remove the need for evaluation, interfaces, ownership, and field feedback.
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Building robotics systems that work in the real world.
I’ve worked on robots in space, on roads, in homes, in labs, and in fields.
My work sits at the intersection of robotics software, technical direction, engineering leadership, and real-world autonomy.
These days, I’m especially interested in deployed robotics and physical AI: bringing advanced technology into production, understanding the tradeoffs that show up in real systems, and moving beyond demos toward robots people can actually use.
What I do
I’m a robotics engineering leader with experience across space robotics, autonomous vehicles, assistive robotics, and agricultural automation.
Most of my work has focused on the transition from robotics research to systems that need to operate reliably outside the lab: autonomy, developer tooling, simulation, software infrastructure, and the engineering organizations required to support complex robots over time.
Leadership
I build engineering teams that can make progress on difficult robotics systems: hiring, mentoring, clarifying ownership, setting expectations, and creating conditions for good technical judgment.
Read more about me →Technical strategy
I help teams decide what to build, what to de-risk first, and how to connect long-term technical direction to near-term execution across robotics research, product constraints, and engineering realities.
Read more about my work →Communication
I write and speak about robotics, autonomy, open-source software, engineering culture, and the long-term evolution of robotics infrastructure.
See talks and publications →Featured writing
Notes on robotics, autonomy, engineering leadership, and the work between research and deployment.
Robotics
Demos Can Deceive You. Don't Trust Them.
A robotics demo can show that something worked. It rarely shows how often it works, how broadly it applies, or how much support made it successful.
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Robots Are Like Onions
In robotics, fixing the most visible problem often reveals the next bottleneck underneath.
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Let's talk robotics.
Reach out about robotics leadership, autonomy strategy, advisory work, speaking, or hard problems in real-world robotics systems.
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