Saurav Agarwal
Head Of Hivemind India at Armory
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurav Agarwal is a seasoned technology leader, 2x founder and Ph.D. in Robotics/AI with 12+ years building and scaling AI, robotics, SaaS and industrial automation products. He founded SIERA.AI after his Ph.D., raising ~$7M, growing to 30+ people, deploying 1000+ devices and landing enterprise deals up to $300K by obsessively validating customer pain points early. At Shield AI he progressed from leading Hivemind Pilot engineering to creating and scaling the global Customer Engagement organization, driving double-digit millions in revenue and building India Hivemind leadership. His hands-on background ranges from inventing novel SLAM/motion-planning research and filing patents at Qualcomm to shipping end-to-end AI-enabled IoT products and enterprise GTM playbooks. He pairs deep technical expertise with commercial grit—having learned hard lessons from a failed first startup and turned them into repeatable product-market-fit and sales execution. Based in California, he advises and invests in defense and robotics startups, bringing research-driven innovation to real-world operational deployments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics / Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics / Artificial Intelligence at Texas A&M UniversityM.Sc by Research, Autonomous Vehicles, M.Sc by Research, Autonomous Vehicles at Cranfield University
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (17)
ompl10
cpp10
backend10
motion-planning10
g2o8
ros8
slam8
aruco8
graph7
gtsam7
robot7
frontend7
aruco-marker-detection6
robotics6
c-library3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sauravag/slam_karto_g2o
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
A ROS Package for Pose Graph SLAM that uses open_karto for the front end and G2O for backend
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
backendfrontendg2ographros
sauravag/edpl-rfmslam
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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