Renuka Apte
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRenuka Apte is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 13+ years of experience building high-performance AI and infrastructure systems and taking robotics products from prototype to commercial scale. As Co-founder and CEO of Clockwork she led the team that built the world’s first autonomous AI-powered manicure robot—deploying in airports and retail, painting over 500,000 nails, achieving $1M+ ARR, and exiting via acquisition. She has deep distributed-systems chops from leading infrastructure teams at Dropbox that powered billions of daily file previews and real-time sync at massive scale, and early systems work at NVIDIA on Tegra. Renuka is known for assembling lean, talent-dense teams that outcompete larger rivals and for translating domain research into robust, capital-efficient products; at Clockwork she combined surgical-robot precision with commodity hardware and a realtime observability stack that resolved 95% of incidents remotely. Based in San Francisco, she blends hands-on technical design with GTM and operational rigor, uniquely comfortable across AI, hardware, and production-grade backend systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBE, Computer Engineering, BE, Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Github Skills (39)
computer-graphics8
rendering8
visualization7
python7
cuda7
cpp7
arm6
opengl6
gpu6
3d6
volume-rendering6
machine-learning6
odometry6
pytorch6
mesh-processing5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kijiproject/kiji-modeling
Nov 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 6 months
kijiproject/kiji-express
Apr 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 1 month
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