Sirius Ganesh.
Deployment engineering leader scaling warehouse robotics from startup pilot to enterprise production. Currently managing a team of 7 deployment engineers across 9 customer sites at Pickle Robot, after scaling $40M+ in AMR fleet deployments at Geek+. I bridge deep technical ownership — computer vision, fleet systems, networking — with the operational discipline to deliver automation programs reliably.
Experience
- Manage a team of 7 deployment engineers — hiring, performance, and development — across 9 active customer sites running autonomous truck-unloading robots.
- Reduced per-site deployment time from 2 weeks to 2 days by standardizing deployment playbooks, networking infrastructure protocols, and customer training programs.
- Own end-to-end deployment of 15+ robotic systems across enterprise logistics warehouses; on-time delivery tied to customer business objectives.
- Partner with engineering and product to close the loop between field data and iterative design — the deployment team is the fastest feedback path into the roadmap.
- Primary customer contact during rollout; translate technical progress into business outcomes for stakeholders up to the VP level.
- Advised enterprise customers on AMR deployments, including UPS Happy Returns' first automated returns hub (150 robots) — reduced return processing time by 35%.
- Designed and executed testing strategies for fleet management systems: RESTful API integrations and UAT, hitting 100% SLA compliance at go-live.
- Built scalable SOPs and troubleshooting frameworks that reduced system downtime by 15% across active sites.
- Drove cross-functional delivery across engineering, support, and customer teams from scoping through go-live.
- Directed planning, scheduling, and budgeting for $40M+ in AMR fleet deployment projects, including a 700+ robot facility for UPS that optimized storage capacity by 30%.
- Managed supply chain, installation, and system testing; delivered on schedule against stringent quality and performance benchmarks.
- Established a train-the-trainer program for customer operations teams, enabling independent fleet management and troubleshooting post-deployment.
Capabilities
Leadership
- Cross-functional team management
- Multi-site program ownership
- P&L & deployment economics
- Executive & stakeholder comms
- Process standardization
- Vendor & partner management
- Strategic planning & roadmapping
Robotics
- AMR fleet orchestration
- Computer vision & SLAM
- Edge computing & ML integration
- Sensor integration
- Control & embedded systems
- WMS / WCS / WES integration
- End-to-end commissioning
Systems
- Linux · Python · JavaScript · SQL
- Networking & IT/OT convergence
- Cybersecurity for industrial systems
- RESTful APIs & integration testing
- Git & CI pipelines
- User Acceptance Testing
- SOP & runbook authoring
Selected projects
UPS Happy Returns — first automated returns hub
Advised on and supported the deployment of 150 Geek+ AMRs for UPS Happy Returns' first fully automated returns processing facility. Return processing time down 35%.
UPS — 700+ robot AMR facility
Directed planning, scheduling, and budgeting for one of Geek+'s largest deployments in North America. Optimized storage capacity by 30%.
Pickle Robot — deployment playbook v3
Built the standardized deployment process now used across Pickle's customer base: networking protocols, site prep, commissioning, and operator training. Per-site install time from 2 weeks to 2 days.
More to add: specific site retros, failure post-mortems, and a public-friendly write-up of the deployment playbook once NDA scope is sorted.
About
I work at the intersection of hardware, software, and operations — where robots stop being demos and start running somebody's P&L. My focus is the last mile of automation: the part where a novel system has to survive a real facility, a real workforce, and a real 3am shift change.
The career arc covers both ends of the maturity curve. Pickle Robot is 0-to-1 — architecture-defining decisions, operating with ambiguity, deep technical ownership. Geek+ was scale — multi-site rollouts, process maturity, enterprise customers. The combination I optimize for: innovate like a startup, execute like an enterprise.
B.S. Engineering Mechanics, minor in Business — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Outside work: espresso (still chasing the god shot), RC aviation (EDF jets and collective-pitch helis), and American Mensa Area Coordinator for Champaign County.
Contact
Best way to reach me is siriusganesh@outlook.com. For recruiter outreach, LinkedIn is fine. Open to conversations about director-level deployment, field engineering, and robotics operations — especially at companies scaling from pilot to production.