Taruna Sudhakar

Taruna Sudhakar is a Technical Program Manager at Bonsai Robotics since June 2024, having previously served as an Engineering Program Manager at Zipline from July 2023 to June 2024. Prior experience includes working as a Systems Engineer and Project Manager at the National Robotics Engineering Center, where several robotic projects were guided from concept validation to deployment. Taruna has a strong background in research, with roles as a Research and Development Specialist at Tata Elxsi and a Research and Teaching Assistant at Solarillion Foundation, focusing on microgrid and smartgrid solutions. Academic qualifications include a Master of Science in Robotic Systems Development from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from SSN College of Engineering. Additional experience includes a project internship at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, involving image registration on MRI scans.