Summary
Ravi Bhadeshiya is an Engineering Lead Manager specializing in humanoid autonomy with 9 years of experience building robot software that runs reliably outside the lab. He leads teams that deliver end-to-end autonomy platforms—teleoperation, simulation, navigation, perception, and RL—bridging research and production to ship mission-level Navigation + Manipulation on real hardware. At Apptronik he has progressed from senior engineer to lead and manager, owning system architecture, data pipelines, and integration of learning-based approaches with classical robotics stacks. His background includes deploying production warehouse robots at Honeywell Intelligrated and research on multi-vehicle cooperative planning supported by NASA during his master's at University of Maryland. Based in Austin, he combines hands-on development of simulation and teleop tooling with mentoring and cross-functional partnerships to move promising ideas into maintainable, customer-facing systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic roboticist and enthusiastic learner who thrives where complex algorithms meet real-world reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechatronics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechatronics at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Master’s Degree Robotics, Master’s Degree Robotics at University of Maryland
English, Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit