Chris WaltiCo Founder

United States - San Francisco, California

I'm applying two decades of software and hardware engineering experience to the massive challenge of modernizing automation for supply chain and manufacturing industries. The strain on supply chains and manufacturing systems require immediate and disruptive solutions. PLCs are rigid by design and today's "industrial" products are 4x the cost with .25x the capability vs. standard enterprise tools. Most organizations don't have legions of control engineers to roll out needed systems or take on the tech debt. Mytra provides a platform to simply and efficiently solve the most common task in industry - moving and storing material throughout the facility. These non value add tasks employ between 25-75% of the labor for any industrial operation. Mytra develops a novel racking structure providing a 3D grid traversable along all 3 axes, robots to move material within the system, and the software to easily design, operate, and continuously optimize without the need for automation engineers.

Previous to Mytra I created and led Tesla's Mobile Robotics team. We design, develop, build, and deploy robots across Tesla's manufacturing portfolio. The team includes mechanical, electrical, software, controls, perception, manufacturing, and operations experts. We create wheeled mobile robots that serve our factories, and also develop the humanoid Tesla Bot (Optimus).

My professional experiences involve leading engineering teams to design and launch new products, both as an entrepreneur and an "intrapreneur" (within existing companies). They combine hardware and software. The technical challenges/risk and level of responsibility have increased with each role.