Summary
Brian Machado is a Canada-based technology entrepreneur and mechatronics specialist with nine years of hands-on experience in robotics and product leadership. As founder and CEO of Bracket Bot since 2025 and formerly co-founder and CEO of Globe, he has steered early-stage robotics tooling from concept to market. His career spans engineering roles at Tesla, Samsung Research America, Uber, and X, the Moonshot Factory, grounding his ventures in real-world prototyping and scalable systems. He is a Waterloo Mechatronics graduate who cut his teeth in FIRST robotics, blending design, manufacturing, and leadership from student teams to startups. Known in the community as "former engineer, now artist," he treats robotics as both craft and product, translating technical depth into user-focused solutions. Based in Canada, he builds cross-disciplinary teams, combining hardware pragmatism with strategic product development to accelerate intelligent automation.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo