Ruddick Lawrence
CTO at Bee Partners
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuddick Lawrence is a robotics CTO and founder with 14 years of experience turning complex electromechanical systems into manufacturable products, from surgical instruments at Intuitive Surgical to robotic arms at Carbon Robotics and Rapid Robotics. He combines hands-on engineering—having written entire software stacks and created calibration, motion testing, and CV systems—with team-building and product leadership, growing engineering teams and bringing multiple instrument families to market. Comfortable in startups and venture roles, he pairs deep platform-level technical ownership with customer-driven product definition. Based in San Francisco and trained at Stanford in mechanical engineering, he brings a rare blend of surgical-precision quality systems and rapid iteration that scales from prototype to tens of thousands of shipped units.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Mechanical Engineering, MS, Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (81)
ignition10
robot-control10
ros-control10
driver10
javascript9
robotics9
duolingo9
websocket9
state-machine9
ros9
gazebosim9
robot-simulator9
gazebo-simulator9
robotics-simulation9
socket-io9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mrjogo/DuolingoVocabExporter
Apr 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 8 months
csvexportjavascriptduolingovocab
mrjogo/ar_gripper
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
ROS drivers for the AR Gripper - Open Hardware Parallel Adaptive Electric Gripper
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
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