I run operations on a 24/7 robotics pipeline at night, and a five-vehicle commercial fleet on the side.
At Tesla I'm the Data Operations Lead on the Optimus program's night
shift. I keep the data collection pipeline running across a multi-cell
floor, automate the redundant pieces out of my team's day, and build
the dashboards we use to spot drift before it becomes a stoppage. It is
operations work for an autonomous-robotics program, and it is portable
to operations work on any autonomous program.
Outside Tesla I run a five-vehicle commercial fleet on Turo. Twenty-six
months in, approaching All-Star Host status, with a real P&L that has
rewarded me for being right about utilization, pricing, and capital
reallocation, and punished me for being wrong. I built the analytics
stack myself because nothing off the shelf answered the questions I
actually had.
I learn fastest with skin in the game. I'm looking for the role where
the operational analysis I produce changes what the team ships next,
not just what shows up in the next slide.
Trajectory: fleet operations or operations analyst
in the next 12 months, technical program manager on a
2-3 year arc. Strongest fit at autonomous-systems and logistics
companies where someone needs to keep a real-world operation running
and tell the rest of the org what's going on inside it.
Things I'm doing right now besides applying for jobs: finishing a CPTC
cert, two SNHU classes toward the Data Analytics BS, shipping DayFlow,
and writing up the next case study from the fleet.