Ilia Baranov
Co-Founder & CTO at Pioneer Fund
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIlia Baranov is a pragmatic robotics CTO and co-founder with 11 years of hands-on experience turning research prototypes into production autonomy for industrial vehicles. Based in San Francisco, he blends electrical engineering roots from the University of Waterloo with leadership at Polymath Robotics and prior engineering management across Clearpath and Amazon’s Astro program, shipping perception, motion, and SLAM-driven systems. He favors Swiss-army-knife solutions—prioritizing speed and versatility under tight deadlines—and excels at making compelling demos that push robotic capabilities into real-world deployments. A former satellite C&C and signal-analysis engineer, he brings uncommon cross-domain fluency that helps bridge low-level hardware, embedded electronics, and high-level autonomy stacks. Outside work he channels the same experimental curiosity into rock climbing, snowboarding, and hardware hacking.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BASci Electrical Engineering, BASci Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (134)
realsense10
esp3210
ros10
client-library10
intel10
ignition10
camera10
platformio10
pan10
ros-driver10
pcl10
gazebosim10
husky10
esp826610
flir10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Blueprint-Foundry/Shelly
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Shelly aims to be a low cost ROS teaching and R&D tool for universities and corporations.
Contributions:81 commits, 3 PRs, 70 pushes in 6 months
corporationsros2teachinglow-costros
ibaranov-cp/Ergo_Infinity_Display
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
javascriptpush
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