I’m a robotics and autonomy engineer with 12+ years of experience building and deploying production, safety-critical systems across medical robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation. I spent seven years at Intuitive Surgical working on FDA-regulated robotic platforms used in live clinical environments, where reliability, validation, and real-world constraints were non-negotiable. More recently, I’ve worked on autonomy software at Cruise and other AV companies, integrating perception and autonomy stacks with real vehicles operating in complex environments. Across hardware and software, my work consistently sits at the system boundary, where safety, deployment, and scale dominate architectural decisions. That perspective now shapes the problems I spend time exploring: aut...