1986  First line of code (Commodore 64)
1991  First robot
1997  First neural network
2000  First brain-computer interface
2013  AlchemyAPI → IBM Watson (employee #10)
2014  Zero Day Initiative → TrendMicro
2017  Bell Labs — embedded comms, 5G, GPS
2019  Tanium — 1.25M endpoints, fleet ops automation at scale
2023  MindHive — consulting/contracting robotic & agentic solutions architecture
2025  TafyLabs — building the infrastructure layer production robotics is missing

Bobby currently builds robotics & cybersecurity infrastructure and agentic solutions. The TafyLabs projects are the open-source R&D arm of MindHive — developer tooling, deployment pipelines, and observability systems for robots that need to work outside the lab.

• LEANPipes — Automated work stream labeling and start/stop tagging on warehouse videos using on-site VLMs.
• FleetLink — Vendor-agnostic fleet interconnectivity technology.
• TafyStudio — A distributed robotics operating system — get your COTS hardware up and running in under 30 minutes.
• A whole lot more ...

4 decades building software, hardware, cloud infra, cybersecurity, AI/ML, embedded systems, and robotic solutions. The robotics software stack needs the same infrastructure patterns that power IT at scale — observability, CI/CD, fleet ops, OTA. Bobby's been building both sides of that bridge his entire career.

Eighteen robotic platforms. A custom 3D printer from scratch. A 15-node embedded Kubernetes cluster for serverless inference. 26 years of security engineering. And a growing conviction that the $120B robotics software market is missing its most important layer.

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