Ilya Kelner

CTO & Co-Founder @ Red Barn Robotics

Red Barn Robotics· Winter 2025Greater Seattle Area

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2024Chief Technology Officer· Red Barn Robotics

In tech · since 2007

Company

Red Barn Robotics

Role

Chief Technology Officer

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Red Barn Robotics

A Roomba for weeds on a farm.

Winter 2025

Experience

Career

Red Barn Robotics
Chief Technology Officer · 2024 – Present
2024
Relativity Space
Staff Flight Software Engineer · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2022 – 2024
2022
NVIDIA
Senior Software Engineer · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2020 – 2022
2020
Maka Autonomous Robotic Systems
Senior Software Engineer · 2020
2020
SpaceX
Software Engineer · 2015 – 2020
2015
Mark One
Director of Firmware and Algorithms · 2014 – 2015
2014
Microsoft
Software and Algorithms Engineer · Redmond · 2012 – 2014
2012
Microsoft
Incubation Engineer · 2011 – 2012
2011
Carnegie Mellon University
Research Assistant · 2007 – 2011
2007

Bio

CTO/cofounder at Red Barn Robotics. Previously worked on: Flight software and testing architecture @ Relativity Space - Flight software lead. Built: triple string fault tolerant flight computer architecture, Dockerized flight software deployments, CI/CD for HOOTL, HITL, VITL. Autonomous cars @ Nvidia. Starlink @ SpaceX. Xbox @ Microsoft. Early employee at 2 other startups in the past.