Tom Panzarella
Chief Technology Officer at Seegrid
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Panzarella is a robotics executive and founder with 11+ years focused on perception software for mobile robots, currently serving as CTO at Seegrid after leading their autonomy and perception teams. He combines hands-on expertise across data analysis, algorithm design, systems programming, SLAM, and performance optimization with executive experience in product strategy, M&A, and scaling robotics businesses. Tom has founded and sold two startups (Love Park Robotics to ifm and Box Robotics to Seegrid), shipped industrial-grade 3D vision and SDKs used across OEMs, and helped commercialize ROS 2-based perception stacks for AMRs. Technically fluent in C++, Python, ROS 2, LiDAR and camera systems, he maintains active technical involvement to guide R&D investments and reduce technical debt. Notably, his work produced widely adopted industrial SDKs (ifm3d) and patent-backed perception innovations that enabled off-path navigation and agile pallet handling. Based in Philadelphia, he blends entrepreneur grit with deep systems-level knowledge to lead teams delivering production autonomous material handling solutions.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Internet Engineering, Master's Degree Internet Engineering at Marlboro CollegeHigh School, High School at La Salle College High SchoolMaster's Degree Mathematics, Master's Degree Mathematics at Villanova University
Github Skills (17)
pmd10
depth-camera10
driver10
3d10
ros10
numpy-arrays9
multidimensional-arrays8
cpp5
pcl5
visualization4
numpy4
python3
http2
hugo2
iot-device1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ifm/libo3d3xx
Sep 2014 - Oct 2018
Driver and utilities for IFM Efector O3D3xx depth cameras
Contributions:213 commits, 23 PRs, 132 pushes in 4 years 1 month
depth-cameradriver
ifm/royale-ros
Jul 2017 - May 2018
ROS package for pmd-based ToF cameras based on the Royale SDK
Contributions:46 commits, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
pmdros
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