Summary
Mario Delgado is a design and product leader with 12 years of experience turning frontier research into usable products, most recently leading design and product at TinyFish and serving as a fractional design & product executive for early-stage AI startups. As a founding design lead at multiple companies—including Ghost Autonomy where his work contributed to eight US patents—he blends creative direction, technical problem-solving, and industrial design to ship embodied AI, HMI, and spatial computing products. He’s skilled at building cross-functional teams that move rapidly from concept to production and at translating deep technical domains (LLMs, multimodal sensing, neuromorphic hardware) into intuitive user experiences. Based in Menlo Park, he pairs an architectural background with hands-on product engineering, often surfacing novel interaction patterns and safety-focused design solutions in physical AI systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Architecture / Leave of Absence, Master of Architecture / Leave of Absence at University of California, Berkeley
BA, Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies, BA, Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies at Lehigh University