Thomas Gurriet is a Principal Applied Scientist with eight years of hands-on experience building safe, trustworthy robotics and cyber-physical systems, currently leading efforts in robotics AI at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics. He brings a rare blend of deep academic training—a Caltech PhD in applied safety-critical control—and practical product leadership from roles as CTO of a robotics startup and engineering positions at Yamaha and Wandercraft. His work spans model-based control, dynamic stabilization for exoskeletons, open-water navigation, and geo-fencing for UAVs, showing strength across perception-to-control stacks. Based in Pasadena, he pairs research-grade rigor with production-focused delivery, routinely translating safety-critical theory into deployable systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who deliberately bridges long-horizon academic insight with the pragmatic constraints of large-scale robotics deployments.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
Master's degree in Engineering Mechanical and industrial engineering, Master's degree in Engineering Mechanical and industrial engineering at Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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