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Derek Tuggle - Vice President, New Product Development in San Francisco, CA

Derek Tuggle

Executive Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in industrial IoT controls

Axiom CloudGeorgia TechSan Francisco, CA6 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks On-Site

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VP of New Product Development at Axiom Cloud who built and scaled a "Virtual Battery" product that used supermarket frozen inventory as thermal energy storage—personally prototyped core control/safety logic in Python and led the engineering buildout through deployment and operations. Combines real-world industrial controls and edge deployment experience (LonWorks/Modbus, Docker/CI/CD) with an MS in CS focused on robotics, perception, and ML, including ROS 2 and YOLO-based perception.

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Key Strengths

  • Led end-to-end R&D from feasibility analysis to deployment/operations for a production energy-storage product
  • Hands-on prototyping and implementation of control, safety, and fallback logic in Python
  • Debugged complex, low-probability field failures via deep data analysis and cross-disciplinary systems thinking (controls/thermo/electronics/mechanical)
  • Built ROS 2 perception pipeline with YOLO-based detection achieving >90% accuracy and robustness to occlusions/lighting
  • Strong first-principles robotics foundation (Kalman/particle filters, SLAM, path planning, deep learning)
  • Experience with industrial/edge deployments requiring uptime (CI/CD, Docker images)

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Experience

Vice President, New Product DevelopmentAxiom Cloud · Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Systems EngineerAxiom Exergy · Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

Education

Georgia Techmaster, Computer Science (Robotics & Computational Perception, Machine Learning) (2024)
UC Berkeleybachelor, Mechanical Engineering (2016)

Languages

English

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Derek TuggleExecutive Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in industrial IoT controls