Swarooph Nirmal Seshadri

• Technology Strategy & Leadership: Served as the technical lead for scaling autonomous fleet software from R&D to mass deployment; established the execution strategy including code review standards and release cadences—required to scale from pre-revenue to 100+ robots across 10+ countries.
• Data-Driven Roadmap Management: Designed and deployed a cloud-native observability platform to monitor fleet health, managing 9 million daily requests; utilized real-time performance data to identify system bottlenecks and inform the strategic R&D roadmap, resulting in reducing human to robot ratio from 1:10 to 1:100.
• Lifecycle Validation & Training: Integrated Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) protocols; bridged the gap between R&D and Field Operations by translating new feature releases into formal technical training modules and standardized sign-off criteria.
• Technical Solution Scoping: Served as the technical lead for high-value tenders (~S$2M), translating complex client requirements into verifiable hardware-software specifications and defending architectural decisions (safety, reliability, data privacy) to external technical auditors.
• Vendor Management: Directed the selection and technical management of 3rd party software vendors for project-based feature delivery and rapid prototyping; defined Statement of Work (SOW) technical requirements and conducted rigorous acceptance testing to ensure external deliverables met internal architectural standards.
• Modular System Architecture: Architected a multi-compute autonomous stack (Nvidia Jetson & x86) utilizing ROS 2 and CAN-bus; prioritized a modular design that allowed for rapid iteration of high-level systems (navigation, application etc.) while maintaining the integrity of low-level hardware control and battery telemetry.
• Cybersecurity & Governance Leadership: Spearheaded the enterprise-wide cybersecurity governance program, serving as the executive lead for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certification; established the technical controls and compliance frameworks necessary to unlock highly regulated government and enterprise markets.

Product Development & Open Source Contributions

• Zero-to-One Product Delivery: Architected the CO-LAB indoor robot platform and Smart+ fleet management system, taking the product from concept to commercial deployment in 6 months.
• System Integration & Interoperability: Developed robot-agnostic mission systems supporting >1,000 daily production missions; integrated AWS services (Polly, Rekognition) and ensured backward compatibility across legacy and modern fleets to maximize asset lifespan.
• Open Source Leadership: Collaborated with the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) to develop and open-source an Aruco marker-based docking algorithm, establishing the company as a technical thought leader in the APAC ROS community.

• Simulation & Validation: Developed reference technical frameworks for automated driving algorithms validation and closed-loop simulation using MATLAB/Simulink for software in the loop (SIL), hardware in the loop (HIL) and scenario based testing.
• System Modeling: Specialized in multi-domain physics simulation and code generation, providing the technical foundation for how autonomous systems are evaluated in simulation environments. Used simulations of various fidelity such as kinematic 2D simulators, Unreal Engine to sensor modeling to achieve maximum coverage of scenario testing to close the sim to real gap.

• Technical Content Development & Delivery: Scaled organizational technical competency by delivering industry-level training on computer vision, code generation, and multi-domain physics simulation, facilitating the adoption of standardized robotics workflows across enterprise clients.

• Troubleshooted complex technical issues; developed simulation for collision avoidance in Simulink for the Adept Pioneer robot.