Building autonomous machines for the real world

I work in the founder's office at Ottonomy, a company building L4 autonomous delivery robots. My job is to bridge the gap between what our robots can do and what our customers need them to do, which means closing enterprise deals, managing global deployments and troubleshooting the thousand ways reality breaks our assumptions.

Before this, I led a 40 person student team building Martian rovers, worked on predictive analytics for mining drones, led discovery on a new product line for the same drone tech startup. I studied mechanical engineering at BITS Pilani with a focus on robotics.

I'm most drawn to deep tech with real world applications - systems that need to perform reliably in degraded environments, when no one's watching, when things go wrong. Industrial startups solving for better manufacturing, hardware companies building next-gen products - basically anything that that uses tech out of sci-fi labs; I love working with such teams on bringing this tech to the end customer in a form that they use, today.