OUR TEAM

The team building the most compact systems for mobile platforms

We’re an engineer-heavy firm, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Meet the team

Every person on this team has soldered a board, run pre-compliance testing and shipped BotBlox hardware to a real platform.

Josh Elijah MEng MIET

CEO and Head of Hardware

Josh holds a master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester is deeply experienced in Electronics, Manufacture, Mixed Signal Design and FPGA.

He is responsible for company management, new product strategy and company marketing

Josh Elijah MEng MIET

CEO and Head of Hardware

Josh Elijah MEng MIET

CEO and Head of Hardware

Josh Elijah MEng MIET

CEO and Head of Hardware

Stylised portrait illustration of a BotBlox team member

Aaron Elijah MPhys

CTO and Head of Software

Aaron holds a master’s degree in Physics from the University of Edinburgh and has experience in full-stack software development.

He develops all software and firmware that runs on BotBlox products.

Aaron Elijah MPhys

CTO and Head of Software

Aaron Elijah MPhys

CTO and Head of Software

Aaron Elijah MPhys

CTO and Head of Software

Aaron Elijah MPhys

CTO and Head of Software

Aaron Elijah MPhys

CTO and Head of Software

Jaclyn Li MA

Head of Operations

Jaclyn holds a master's degree in Translation Studies from the University of Durham and has experience in sales, project management, and cross-cultural communication.

She manages fulfilment, supply chain, and suppliers to ensure smooth operations at BotBlox.

Jaclyn Li MA

Head of Operations

Jaclyn Li MA

Head of Operations

Jaclyn Li MA

Head of Operations

Jaclyn Li MA

Head of Operations

Jaclyn Li MA

Head of Operations

Matt Elijah BEng

Head of Logistics

Matt holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Salford and has experience in power electronics and high voltage drives.

He manages the shipping, customs and general logistics of the business, ensuring that shipments are made smoothly and efficiently.

Matt Elijah BEng

Head of Logistics

Matt Elijah BEng

Head of Logistics

Matt Elijah BEng

Head of Logistics

Matt Elijah BEng

Head of Logistics

Matt Elijah BEng

Head of Logistics

Ellein Gutierrez BSc

Head of Customer Service

Ellein holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, majoring in Finance, from Tarlac State University.

She oversees billing operations and client account management, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and a seamless experience for both clients and internal teams.

Ellein Gutierrez BSc

Head of Customer Service

Ellein Gutierrez BSc

Head of Customer Service

Ellein Gutierrez BSc

Head of Customer Service

Nick Anderson BSc

Technical Advisor

Nick holds a bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering and has worked across the UAV industry for the past 15 years.

Nick has deep expertise in supporting both aircraft development, flight critical avionics, mission payloads and everything in-between.

Nick Anderson BSc

Technical Advisor

Nick Anderson BSc

Technical Advisor

Nick Anderson BSc

Technical Advisor

Shining Wang

Hardware Engineer

Shining is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.

At BotBlox, she is currently leading evaluation and testing on the mmWave project, developing a metric to characterize the product and developing a documentation platform.

Shining Wang

Hardware Engineer

Nick Starace BSc

Hardware Engineer

Nick holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Most of his experience includes electronics design for data acquisition systems in motorsport. He plans to pursue additional education for work in digital signal processing and embedded communications.

Nick Starace BSc

Hardware Engineer

Elsie Michaelson

Applications Engineer

Elsie is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Physics at McGill University.

At BotBlox, she works across technical marketing and engineering, writing website and product content, creating technical documentation, assembling and soldering circuit boards, and testing Ethernet hardware to help bring new products from development to customers.

Elsie Michaelson

Applications Engineer

Thomas Alarcon Ali

Manufacturing Engineer

Thomas is currently pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY).

At BotBlox, he supports PCB assembly and hardware prototyping by programming and operating pick-and-place machines, fabricating mechanical components with 3D printing, performing soldering and rework, and assisting with PCB testing and validation.

Thomas Alarcon Ali

Manufacturing Engineer

We design the hardware that lets the rest of your platform shine.

By the numbers

Eight years of building hardware

YEARS OF OPERATION

MODULES SHIPPED

CUSTOMER PROGRAMS IN SERVICE

That's why integration support is fast and supply chains are short: the engineer who answers your question is also the one who designed the board, ran its EMC pre-compliance, and verified its mainline Linux build.

That’s why integration support is fast and supply chains are short: the engineer who answers your question is also the one who designed the board, ran its EMC pre-compliance, and verified its mainline Linux build.

What drives us

Hands on the hardware

We own the design

Every engineer here has soldered, scoped and integrated BotBlox modules into real platforms. There's no engineering layer that doesn't touch the bench.

Unprecedentedly small

We answer in numbers, not adjectives.

Order in minutes, shipped in days

Working hardware in a customer's hands teaches more than six months of internal review.

Density of decision

Small team. Every engineer is also a decision-maker.

Hands on the hardware

We own the design

Every engineer here has soldered, scoped and integrated BotBlox modules into real platforms. There's no engineering layer that doesn't touch the bench.

Unprecedentedly small

We answer in numbers, not adjectives.

When a customer asks if our module survives their environment, we send the qualification report, not a marketing claim. If we don't have the data, we get it before we promise.

Order in minutes, shipped in days

Working hardware in a customer's hands teaches more than six months of internal review.

We favour short integration loops, fast bench time and real-world feedback over exhaustive planning cycles. The release cadence is a discipline, not a milestone on a Gantt chart.

Density of decision

Small team. Every engineer is also a decision-maker.

We create the most value by focusing on technical excellence and storng supply chain control. That is the signal, and everything else is noise. This focus defines our culture: efficient, disciplined, and fast.