Siddhartha Srinivasa
Venture Partner at Zordi
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSiddhartha Srinivasa is a full-stack roboticist and venture partner based in Seattle with 11+ years leading the translation of robotics research into deployed products across academia, industry, and startups. He blends deep technical expertise in perception, planning, and control with hands-on systems-building—spanning robot arms, autonomous vehicles, and assistive devices—to deliver end-to-end solutions that prioritize real-world sample efficiency and safety. As Boeing Endowed Professor and former Director of Robotics AI at Amazon, he has scaled teams and organizations while keeping a scientist’s rigor, driving work from theorems to deployed fleets. His founding and early-stage leadership at Berkshire Grey and board role at Zordi reflect a sustained focus on commercializing robotics for logistics and agriculture. He is passionate about democratizing robotics through open hardware, software, and curriculum—evident in his work on low-cost RACECAR platforms and real-robot demonstrations like HERB and ADA. Less obvious: he intentionally bridges customer-driven product design with academic openness, ensuring research artifacts are both publishable and production-ready.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanPhD Robotics, PhD Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada
Github Skills (35)
robot-control9
robotics9
motion-planning9
pybullet8
ros8
latex8
tex8
dynamics8
kinematics7
optimization7
bibtex6
perception6
python6
simulation6
reinforcement-learning6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
siddhss5/siddhss5.github.io
Aug 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
siddhss5/siddweb
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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