Saurav Agarwal
United States, India
Summary
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SeniorSaurav Agarwal is a seasoned technology leader and 2x startup founder based in Mountain View, California, with over a decade in AI, robotics, SaaS, mobility, and industrial automation. As founder and CTO/CEO of SIERA.AI, he scaled two AI/Robotics product lines to 1000+ devices, built a 30+ person team across the US and India, and raised roughly $6.8M in angel and venture funding, delivering 60+ enterprise customers and multi-year deals up to $300K. He led product, GTM, and partnerships, achieving ~60 NPS and launching an AI-enabled enterprise IoT platform in under a year, while shaping roadmaps with customer insights from 100+ interviews. In 2023-2024 he led Shield AI’s Hivemind initiative as Technical Director and subsequently established the global Customer Engagement organization to accelerate revenue, customer success, and post-sales enablement, contributing to double-digit millions in revenue in a matter of months. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M and advanced research degrees from IIT Bombay and Cranfield, underscoring a strong foundation in autonomous systems, algorithm design, and hardware-software integration. Currently, as Senior Director, Customer Engagement at Shield AI, he combines deep technical leadership with strategic GTM and global team-building across pre-sales, CS, and applications engineering.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
ompl10
homography10
planning10
backend10
motion-planning10
pose9
cpp9
slam-algorithms8
aruco8
front-end8
robotics7
graph7
robot7
garden7
ros7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sauravag/edpl-rfmslam
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
sauravag/slam_karto_g2o
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
A ROS Package for Pose Graph SLAM that uses open_karto for the front end and G2O for backend
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
roboticsros-packagegraph-slamslam-algorithmspose-graph-slam
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