Vasumathi Raman
Co-Founder And Head Of Engineering at Sauron
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVasumathi Raman is a seasoned robotics and autonomy leader with 15 years of experience translating research-grade algorithms into deployed, safety-critical systems. As Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at Sauron and former leads at Zipline, Nuro, and Zoox, she has driven motion planning, fleet coordination, and onboard decision-making that enabled the first FAA-authorized BVLOS commercial deliveries and the world’s first unmanned grocery service. Her background blends formal methods and control theory from a Cornell PhD with hands-on systems work—rewriting control stacks in Rust and architecting prediction-and-planning pipelines that combine learned models with rule-based safety. Known for landing hard technical bets in production, she also has a track record of founding internal communities to broaden technical inclusion. Based in San Francisco, she thrives at the intersection of research, product, and engineering to turn complex autonomy into practical, auditable outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad at the School of Informatics Artificial Intelligence, Study Abroad at the School of Informatics Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghUWC Mahindra CollegePhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBA Computer Science Mathematics, BA Computer Science Mathematics at Wellesley College
French, Tamil, Hindi, English
Github Skills (29)
timing9
eagle9
synth8
automata8
audio8
midi8
temporal8
toolbox7
synthesizer7
electrical-engineering7
specification7
declarative-programming7
logic7
planning7
state-machine6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vraman/BluSTL
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 21 pushes in 10 months
vraman/LTLMoP
Apr 2011 - Nov 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 3 years 7 months
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