Tom Panzarella
Chief Technology Officer at Seegrid
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Panzarella is a robotics executive and founder with 11+ years focused on perception software for mobile robots, currently serving as CTO at Seegrid after leading their autonomy and perception teams. He combines hands-on expertise across data analysis, algorithm design, systems programming, SLAM, and performance optimization with executive experience in product strategy, M&A, and scaling robotics businesses. Tom has founded and sold two startups (Love Park Robotics to ifm and Box Robotics to Seegrid), shipped industrial-grade 3D vision and SDKs used across OEMs, and helped commercialize ROS 2-based perception stacks for AMRs. Technically fluent in C++, Python, ROS 2, LiDAR and camera systems, he maintains active technical involvement to guide R&D investments and reduce technical debt. Notably, his work produced widely adopted industrial SDKs (ifm3d) and patent-backed perception innovations that enabled off-path navigation and agile pallet handling. Based in Philadelphia, he blends entrepreneur grit with deep systems-level knowledge to lead teams delivering production autonomous material handling solutions.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Internet Engineering, Master's Degree Internet Engineering at Marlboro CollegeHigh School, High School at La Salle College High SchoolMaster's Degree Mathematics, Master's Degree Mathematics at Villanova University
Github Skills (38)
converting10
pmd10
camera10
depth10
multidimensional-arrays9
numpy-arrays9
lidar9
ros9
python-bindings9
python8
manifold8
pcl8
lists8
robotics7
cpp6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Box-Robotics/ros2_numpy
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Tools for converting ROS messages to and from numpy arrays
Contributions:11 releases, 4 reviews, 20 commits in 2 years 6 months
pythonnumpyarraysconvertingnumpy-arrays
ifm/ifm3d-ros
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
ifm pmd-based 3D ToF Camera ROS Package
Contributions:54 commits, 33 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
ros-packagetofpmdcameraros
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