David Pietrocola is a robotics and AI entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building and commercializing autonomy for manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and national security. As Co-Founder & CEO of Cohesive Robotics and former Manager of a Mobile Robotics Innovation Lab at Oceaneering, he has led systems from prototype to fleet-scale deployments—examples include an autonomous outdoor forklift and orchestration of 100 AGVs in an automotive factory. He blends hands-on ROS engineering, product strategy, and IP-driven startup building, having founded two robotics companies and taught ROS and lean startup methods at the University of Maryland. A former CIA officer and NSF analyst, he brings uncommon cross-sector operational discipline and mission-focused innovation to commercial robotics for SMBs.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering Italian Studies, B.S. Electrical Engineering Italian Studies at Trinity College-Hartford
MSE Systems Engineering, MSE Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 10 months
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