I’m a robotics engineering leader with experience spanning space robotics, autonomous vehicles, home and assistive robotics, and agricultural automation.

Over the course of my career, I’ve worked on robotics systems operating in difficult real-world environments, from Robonaut at NASA to large-scale autonomy systems at Waymo and production robotics in agriculture.

Most of my work has focused on the messy transition between robotics research and systems that actually have to operate reliably outside the lab. That includes autonomy, developer tooling, simulation, software infrastructure, and the engineering organizations required to support complex robotics systems over time.

Having worked across multiple areas of robotics, I’m especially interested in the technical and organizational problems that keep showing up across domains: bridging research and production, designing resilient systems, scaling engineering teams, and building tools that help robotics developers move faster without making reliability even harder than it already is.

Outside of engineering leadership, I’m interested in open-source robotics, developer ecosystems, technical writing, and the long-term evolution of robotics infrastructure.

How I lead

I try to create engineering environments where people can speak plainly, use evidence, clarify ownership, and make progress on difficult problems without turning everything into a fire drill.

The robotics work I’m most interested in is usually ambiguous at the start. My role is often helping teams decide what matters, what to de-risk first, and how to build enough structure that good technical judgment can turn into execution.

I care about teams that learn quickly, communicate clearly, and build systems that make the next problem easier to find.

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