Jan 2026 - Aug 2026
Co-founded startup building full-stack compute infrastructure for physical AI (robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation); secured backing from institutional investors including BoxGroup, Vine Ventures, SV Angel, Soma Capital, and Valkyrie; accepted into Prod and ZFellows
Aug 2023 - Nov 2025
Leading project to design and implement a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to translate task-based videos into Object-Level Planning (OLP) data to enable robot training based on video tutorials, independent of robot type; first author on upcoming publication
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Led a team building Orchestrator, designed and implemented highly scalable architecture capable of handling millions of requests per day; served as forward deployed engineer, met with C-suite executives at billion-dollar companies to understand business needs and offer custom solutions
Sep 2022 - Jun 2025
Developed an application that will be used to track the level of oxygen in the portable tanks used for patient transport, and is currently being evaluated for use in the health system; used computer numerical control (CNC) milling to fabricate cartilage grafts for surgical reconstruction; first author on a scientific abstract presented at national meeting
Feel free to reach out to me at ryan@kennasmith.com.