Summary
Anton Vinokurov is a mechatronics engineer and serial founder with 11 years of experience building robotics and automation products, currently co-founding Pizzabot to bring food retail robotics to market. He blends hands-on mechatronics, embedded systems and hardware design with a background in web and backend development, enabling end-to-end product ownership from PCB and STM32 firmware to cloud-connected services. Anton co-founded Placer Robotics and led R&D and low-cost industrial automation work at Robotix, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on commercialising research into reliable systems. Educated at UNSW (1st Class Honours) with earlier training in telecommunications and CS, he pairs strong academic grounding with startup grit. Notably, his career began in web backends and APIs, which informs a rare cross-discipline fluency that accelerates product iteration and integration. Based in Sydney, he thrives at the intersection of robotics hardware, embedded firmware and product-driven software.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's diploma (Russian), Telecommunications Engineering and Computer Science, Engineer's diploma (Russian), Telecommunications Engineering and Computer Science at Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)
Gold Medal (top achievement), Gold Medal (top achievement) at School 757, Moscow
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 1st Class Honours at UNSW Australia
English