Zinny Weli
CEO @ RoboDock (YC W26) | Ex Zipline, Amazon, Stanford Robotics
Experience
Career
2025RoboDock (YC W26)
Co-founderCo-Founder & CEO · 2025 – Present
2024Zipline
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer · South San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – 2025
2020Amazon Lab126
Product Design Engineer · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 2020 – 2024
2019Amazon Lab126
Product Design Engineer Intern · Sunnyvale, California · 2019
2017Amazon
Project Engineer · West Coast, U.S. · 2017 – 2018
2016Cummins Inc.
Product Engineering Intern · Columbus, Indiana · 2016
2015Mechatronics and Sustainability Research Lab - University of Michigan
Research Intern · Ann Arbor, Michigan · 2015
Bio
Zinny Weli is co-founder and CEO of RoboDock. She previously led autonomous drone charging infrastructure at Zipline and developed the charging system for Amazon’s home robot, while advancing robotic manipulation R&D for next-generation products. Her expertise spans real-world robotic deployment, from perception-driven manipulation to production-scale hardware systems. Zinny holds a BSME from the University of Michigan (top 1%) and an MSME (Robotics) from Stanford University.