Summary
Vincent Benenati is a Robotics Software Engineer with nine years of experience building navigation and embedded systems, currently contributing to Chef Robotics after advancing navigation capabilities at Bear Robotics. He combines firmware and system-level software expertise—C++ on STM32, RTOS, and RISC-V tooling—with practical maker skills in fabrication, prototyping, and customer-driven product design. His background includes RF and SDR research (including low-cost GPS spoofing methodology), mass-deployable environmental sensing, and cloud integration using Azure and AWS to pipeline sensor data. Comfortable across hardware-software boundaries, he has a track record of shipping reliable products on time and automating testing and tooling to accelerate development. Based in Redwood City, he brings an engineer’s curiosity and hands-on resourcefulness to production robotics challenges.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara