Awards & Recognition
★Named VP of Tesla Optimus robotics program
★Recognized as one of Tesla's Autopilot 'Three Musketeers' alongside Andrej Karpathy and Ashok Elluswamy
★Hyundai Motor Group group adviser and Boston Dynamics outside director
★DoorDash board of directors appointment
Notable Facts
→Led Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot program from concept to working prototypes
→9+ year Tesla veteran rising from Staff Engineer to VP
→Co-inventor on Tesla AI inference compiler patent
→Belgian engineer who came to US on H1-B visa in 2014
→Led development of Tesla's camera-based Autopilot system
→Left Tesla in June 2025 citing family time
→Joined Hyundai as Boston Dynamics adviser in January 2026
→Recently appointed to DoorDash board of directors
→Has 57.6K Twitter followers with technical robotics content
→Elon Musk personally acknowledged his contributions upon departure