Summary
Kel Guerin is a VP of Platform Architecture and robotics veteran with 15 years of experience bridging academic research and product-grade intelligent systems. With a Ph.D. in Robotics from Johns Hopkins, he designs cognitive architectures, knowledge-representation systems, and natural-language interfaces that make robots intuitive collaborators in human environments. He has co-founded startups, led innovation and engineering teams at READY Robotics and Lutron, and now shapes how robots "think" at Fauna Robotics. An inventor on 30+ U.S. and international patents, Kel blends hands-on systems engineering, simulation/AR work, and XR-driven interaction design to move prototypes into production. Based in New Jersey, he pairs deep technical rigor with product sensibility—often focusing on novel programming paradigms that lower the barrier for non-expert users to command complex robots.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Johns Hopkins University
MS Electrical Engineering Robotics, MS Electrical Engineering Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University