Richard Anaya

• Lead a team of 5-7 engineers, integrating contributors' work, shaping the team's roadmap with product management, and keeping the company informed through all-hands status updates.
• Launched 3 major AI prototypes — work begun before stepping into the Head of AI role — that have driven the product direction for 2 years; two reached customers and now influence how they run day-to-day robotics operations.
• Partnered with executive leadership and product management to shape AI strategy and roadmap, translating emerging RAG and foundation model capabilities into prioritized initiatives with clear business impact.
• Built many of the earliest AI prototypes, establishing core technical patterns and de-risking key product directions through rapid, hands-on development.
• Wrote and shipped production code on a near-daily basis in TypeScript (Mastra, Vercel AI SDK, and modern RAG tooling), while ensuring clean integration across multiple contributors' work.
• Conducted research on models and approaches while actively aligning direction with customer needs through conversations with FDEs, sales, and leadership — ensuring technical investments had the highest probability of delivering real business results.
• Aligned team skills and priorities to build sustained execution momentum, helping engineers focus on high-leverage problems with clarity under ambiguity.
• Educated leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on realistic AI opportunities, tradeoffs, and integration considerations, improving organizational decision quality.

• Built an advanced data ingestion pipeline on AWS (PostgreSQL, Kafka, S3) for near-realtime telemetry storage and display.
• Developed telemetry collection agents in Go using Pion WebRTC for realtime transmission of telemetry data to frontend web experiences.
• Built Three.js and WebXR visualizations of advanced robotics data — transformation trees, URDFs, and complex environments — in the browser and on Meta Quest VR headsets.
• Created architectures and open-source libraries that enable customers to extend the platform and accelerate their own success in market.
• Served as a technical voice to leadership, presenting opportunities and complexity to guide strategic decisions.
• Worked directly with customers to understand needs and deliver solutions that create tangible value for custom robotics visualization modules.
• Led process improvements in collaboration with product to focus engineering effort on high-impact work.

• Built the web platform for managing augmented reality app store submissions.
• Developed the React frontend and a serverless backend on AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Enabled data scientists and business insights by writing large-scale data processing systems, automating cloud infrastructure using Databricks.

Built JavaScript features for the Evernote Web client and the Skitch drawing app.

Developed UX and financial data visualization for Schwab's trading platform.