Abu Dhabi · tonight, over the water
Head of Robotics at SIRB.AI
Eight years in robotics, performed by 1,500 drones over the water. Scroll to run the show, or take the controls and draw in the sky.
Scroll to start the show · tap the sky for a ripple
Act I 2018–2019 · Bordeaux, France
Hiventive · Embedded Software Engineer
I built a SystemC/TLM virtual prototype of an STM32 microcontroller (timers, I2C, CAN, GPIO, USART) and integrated it with QEMU.
What stuck: treat time, memory and bandwidth as a budget, and test against a model of the hardware first.
In the sky: the microcontroller, signals running in.
Act II 2019 · Coimbra, Portugal
Ingeniarius · Robotics Assistant
Full autonomy stacks with ROS and embedded systems, built from scratch. They won both maze-solving competitions: the mapped one and the unmapped one.
In the sky: a maze, and the path through it.
Act III 2020–2021 · Nantes, France
Ecole Centrale de Nantes · Robotics Researcher
I led four research projects: multi-agent pathfinding, AI planning in PDDL, real-time ROS control on Xenomai, and ROS 2 latency benchmarking. On the side: Go backend services for Hiventive, remotely.
In the sky: the inverted pendulum from the jitter paper, balancing.
Act IV 2021–2022 · Odense, Denmark
Coalescent Mobile Robotics · Founding Robotics Engineer
Our founding team delivered the first working in-store robot. I led navigation (planning, control, localization), then trolley detection too after the CTO left, with interns and a junior engineer I recruited and trained.
“A real store changes your priorities fast.”
In the sky: a trolley, detected.
Act V 2022–2024 · Abu Dhabi
Technology Innovation Institute · Senior Engineer, Robotics Software
R&D for multi-robot orchestration, collaboration and control. I designed new swarm behaviours, including decentralized bird-inspired flocking, published at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024. The live demos led to USD 3M in contracts.
In the sky: a flock, each drone steering by its neighbours. Move your cursor through it, or tap.
Act VI 2024–2026 · Abu Dhabi
Technology Innovation Institute · Team Lead, Robotics Software
I grew and led a team of 9 across autonomy, infrastructure and integration, and we overhauled the swarm autonomy architecture. With Caltech: outdoor planning and tracking for M4, their flying-and-rolling robot. Demos in Europe and the UAE led to USD 10M+ in contracts.
In the sky: the CPU we gave back to every drone.
Act VII 2024–now · remote
Unchained Labs · Founder
Local-first AI agents that run on a company's own models, data and infrastructure. Kymatics, our graph-based orchestrator, turns a spoken intent into a queue of build jobs.
In the sky: a voice, a graph of agents, a queue of jobs.
Act VIII Feb 2026–now · Abu Dhabi
Founding team · سرب, sirb, is Arabic for a swarm
I designed the robotics architecture and a self-healing autonomy layer: swarm-wide fault and state recording, agents that detect and recover from failures, ML-based mission scoring before launch.
In the sky: watch for a drone turning red. It fails, it's caught, it recovers.
After the show
A real clip of each one, playing while it is on screen. Every card links to the code.
Turns a spoken intent into a queue of build jobs, with local-first agents.
Basketball, films, photography, and Clanker Labs, my self-hosted home with an agent running it. These are mine.
Encore the drones say it first
Swarms, multi-agent planning, one of the projects above, or just hi. I read everything.