Navid
Summary
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SeniorNavid Vatani is a mobility-focused technology leader and founder with 11+ years in robotics, autonomy, and AI, currently advising Mitra Bio and leading autonomy at L5 Automation while running FleetSpark as a strategic consultancy. He co-founded Imperium Drive to deliver remote-driving safety layers and has repeatedly translated research-grade perception and sensor-fusion know-how into commercial ADAS and teleoperation products for automotive and trucking fleets. Navid combines PhD-level robotics research with hands-on CTO experience across startups and Siemens, driving cloud-native architectures, scalable ML/AI pipelines, and real-time vehicle systems. He’s passionate about reducing logistics’ climate footprint through on-demand platooning and has a track record of building high-performance distributed teams and pragmatic engineering processes. A less obvious strength is his ability to pivot between deep technical design and board-level strategy, enabling rapid productization of complex autonomy technologies.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
robotics10
cpp10
electric-vehicles7
java5
hardware5
eda4
ecosystem3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
acfr/snark
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
generic c++ libraries and utilities for robotics
Contributions:535 commits, 336 pushes, 4 comments in 5 years 1 month
roboticscppgeneric
acfr/comma
Mar 2015 - Mar 2019
generic c++ libraries
Contributions:91 commits, 61 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years
cppcpp20c-plus-plusgenericheader-only
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