Summary
Gerry Ens is a robotics executive and seasoned software leader with 12+ years building autonomous and industrial robotics systems across manufacturing, construction, healthcare and finance. He has founded and scaled robotics engineering teams (Go West Robotics) and led product-to-production efforts as CTO or interim CTO at multiple startups, delivering prototypes and commercial systems that combine AI, SLAM, sensor fusion and cloud/embedded platforms. Known for managing large-scale projects on time and on budget, he blends hands-on technical depth—from ROS and embedded Linux to neural nets and VSLAM—with strategic fundraising, hiring and go-to-market activity. Based in Boise, Idaho, Gerry has a rare mix of early-product prototyping experience (assistive robotics for the sight-loss community) and long-term commercialization expertise in industrial automation. He also brings cross-domain fluency from financial systems to heavy equipment operation, enabling practical, safety-minded designs for complex real-world deployments.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
NCCER Heavy Equipment Operator Level 1 & 2 Heavy Equipment Operation, NCCER Heavy Equipment Operator Level 1 & 2 Heavy Equipment Operation at Heavy Equipment Operator School of Idaho
Ms Computer Science, Ms Computer Science at Northeastern University
Bachelors Information Tech, Bachelors Information Tech at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
English, Dutch, German, French