Ruben D'sa
Sr. Product Manager - Simulation Framework For Robot Learning
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRuben D'sa is a senior product manager and robotics researcher with 12 years of experience building simulation, control, and hardware systems for aerial and humanoid robots. Currently leading Isaac Lab’s simulation experience at NVIDIA, he blends product leadership with deep technical expertise from roles at OpenAI, Talos Robotics, and hands-on research developing a transformable solar-powered aircraft at the University of Minnesota. His work spans system dynamics, power electronics, and energy-aware vehicle design, with a knack for squeezing maximal performance through principled modeling, control, and estimation. Ruben has founded a consulting/IP company and shipped robotics infrastructure and simulation platforms for real-world integration, bridging academic prototypes and production-grade tooling. Based in San Francisco, he pairs a Ph.D.-level understanding of multidisciplinary systems with practical delivery experience across startups and research labs. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of improving measurement and automation fidelity—evident from past projects that dramatically increased data resolution and reduced test times.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (55)
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simulation9
physics-engine9
simulations9
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smooth9
mujoco9
robotics-simulation8
urdf8
reverse8
boost8
reader8
language-server8
compile8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rubendsa/rubendsa.github.io
Mar 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
rubendsa/MIST-Bullet
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:69 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
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