Yiran Xuan
Co-Founder at serpent robotics
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiran Xuan is a mechanical engineer-turned-entrepreneur and current Integrated Product Design master's student at the University of Pennsylvania with 11 years of hands-on experience in CAD, mechatronics, and prototype-to-production workflows. As co-founder and technical lead of a tree care robotics startup, he combines product design sensibilities with manufacturing-focused rigor honed at Clarapath and AI Technology, where he developed end-effectors, calibration strategies, and custom production equipment. His background includes cost- and robustness-driven chassis work at Daimler Trucks and many rapid-prototyping wins—from Bluetooth ping-pong robots to quadrupedal prototypes—that reveal a knack for turning playful concepts into reliable systems. Comfortable in both lab and factory settings, he excels at bridging investor-facing product storytelling with detailed manufacturing documentation and inspection processes. Notably, his career reflects a pattern of scaling capacity: redesigning components to cut costs or double capacity while keeping an eye on real-world deployability.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering
Chinese
Github Skills (3)
minecraft8
swarm7
robotics7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
swanurine/HelloWorld2
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
learning-githubsecond
swanurine/ShReSh
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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