Dhanush Bakthavatchalam is a robotics founder and engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building robots and robotic factories, currently leading xLogic Labs from Hangzhou to prototype frontier automation. He co-founded justmanufacture.com to tackle practical manufacturing challenges and previously led robotics teams at Orangewood Labs (including its YC-era unit), blending hardware, control systems, and prompt-engineering for human–robot workflows. An early tinkerer who built his first robot at ten, he pairs that lifelong curiosity with formal training in mechatronics and automation from Bannari Amman Institute of Technology. Beyond product delivery, he has organized and curated technical talks as a TEDx licensee, demonstrating a knack for communicating complex ideas to broader audiences. Known to describe himself as an idealist programmer rather than a dreamer, he focuses on pragmatic systems that move robotics from lab demos into essential industrial use.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, Computer Science with physics, chemistry and mathematics, HSC, Computer Science with physics, chemistry and mathematics at Lisieux Matriculation Higher Secondary School
BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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