Sean Rowan
Staff Robotics Engineer at Stealth Startup
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Rowan is a Staff Robotics Engineer with nine years of experience turning lab-scale research into production-ready robotics and embedded systems. He has led early-stage product development from custom PCBs and microcontroller firmware to perception, state estimation, planning, and control at companies ranging from startups to X (the moonshot factory) and Intrinsic. As Co-Founder & CTO of Moli AI he built next-generation bioreactors, blending robotics, controls, and embedded expertise with entrepreneurial product delivery. Based in Mountain View, he excels at bridging research and applied engineering for dexterous manipulation and generalized robotic learning, with hands-on experience shipping hardware and software across the full stack. Notably, his background includes repeated rapid prototyping cycles and managing remote teams during angel- and stealth-stage projects, giving him a mix of deep technical skill and pragmatic product instincts.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Controls Communications and Signal Processing (CCSP), Master of Science - MS Controls Communications and Signal Processing (CCSP) at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (13)
lidar10
object-recognition8
pcl8
ros8
segmentation8
point-cloud7
robot7
svm7
simulation6
robotics6
pipeline6
computer-vision5
perception4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jupidity/PCL-ROS-cluster-Segmentation
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Cluster based segmentation of Point Cloud with PCL lib in ROS
Contributions:73 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
pointcloudpoint-cloudspclpointros
jupidity/AgControlLib
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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