Sarah Osentoski is a seasoned robotics and AI technology leader with 14+ years building and scaling early-stage startups and R&D teams, currently serving as CTO at Vinci4D.ai and advising investors and startups. She has a track record of turning research into products—from pioneering Robot Web Tools and shared autonomy research at Bosch and Brown to co-founding Mayfield Robotics and leading engineering at Iron Ox where she grew teams from single digits to ~70 and delivered greenhouse automation systems. Comfortable at the intersection of hands-on engineering, org design, and strategic partnerships, she repeatedly assembles cross-disciplinary teams and infrastructure that accelerate shipping complex hardware-software products. Based in Sunnyvale, she blends deep academic training (PhD in CS) with applied leadership, and is known for creating productive, fun cultures and “envy-inducing” facilities that clear the path for engineers to innovate.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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