NowDeployment Engineer at Dexory

Robots don't deploy themselves. I do.

I'm Chris Garza, a robotics and embedded systems engineer who takes hardware from schematic to the field. I deploy autonomous inventory robots across three countries at Dexory, previously kept a humanoid fleet at 98% uptime, and I'm co-founding Icarus to make 3D print farms run themselves.

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Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

Fleet uptime sustained
98%Fleet uptime sustained
Countries deployed
3Countries deployed
Texas, RMNA 2025
2ndTexas, RMNA 2025
National, of 28 teams
10thNational, of 28 teams

Experience with

  • Dexory
  • Avatar Robotics
  • Icarus
  • UTA Robomasters
  • UT Arlington
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What I do

From the schematic to the warehouse floor.

Three kinds of work I take on, for robotics teams that need hardware to perform outside the lab.

Field deployment & fleet operations

Taking autonomous robots from the crate to a live shift, and keeping them there.

  • Site integration and go-live
  • Preventative maintenance programs
  • SOPs and operator hand-off

Embedded & electrical systems

Power, wiring and firmware that survive vibration, impacts and long shifts.

  • PCB layout and diagnostics
  • Harnessing and power distribution
  • STM32, Arduino and Jetson firmware

Automation & additive manufacturing

Production cells that run without babysitting, from CAD to the software that schedules them.

  • Robotic part extraction
  • Print-farm scheduling and inventory
  • SolidWorks and Fusion design

Experience

Deploying robots by day, building a factory on the side.

Deployment engineering taught me what breaks in the real world. Icarus is where I design so it doesn't.

IndustrySep 2026 – Present

Dexory

Deployment Engineer

US · Mexico · Canada

Dexory builds autonomous robots that scan warehouse racking up to 18 m high with an extendable vision tower, turning every aisle into a live digital twin of inventory.

  • Deploying Dexory's autonomous inventory-scanning robots into live customer warehouses across the US, Mexico and Canada, from site setup through go-live.
  • Keeping robots mission-ready on site: hardware troubleshooting, calibration and hand-off to operations teams.
Autonomous Mobile RobotsComputer VisionField DeploymentWarehouse Automation
Chris Garza on site next to a Dexory autonomous inventory-scanning robot in a warehouse
FounderDec 2025 – Present

Icarus

Co-Founder & Lead Engineer

Dallas, TX

Automated 3D print farm built around zero-touch production: robotic part extraction, fleet-scale scheduling and an in-house operations platform.

  • Architecting autonomous part extraction so robotic arms clear build plates and restart jobs without an operator.
  • Scaling a multi-printer Bambu Lab fleet with advanced material testing across nylon, CF-nylon, TPU, ABS and PETG.
  • Built the farm's inventory and job-tracking platform (Flutter + Supabase) with real-time stock alerts and reorder triggers.
AutomationRobotic ArmsBambu LabFlutterSupabase
IndustryDec 2025 – Sep 2026

Avatar Robotics

Junior Field Deployment Engineer

Customer sites · US

Kept a fleet of humanoid and mobile robots running in live warehouse and fulfillment environments. Promoted from Field Deployment Representative to Specialist to Junior Field Deployment Engineer, leading integration and field deployments.

  • Sustained 98% fleet uptime through preventative maintenance and component-level repair of high-torque actuators.
  • Led field deployments at customer sites, from site integration to operator hand-off.
  • Diagnosed PCB logic failures, sensor-fusion anomalies and mechanical faults alongside the CTO and lead engineers.
  • Authored the company's first SOPs for assembly, safety and field deployment; cut downtime 3% with a first-gen maintenance matrix.
Fleet OpsROSPCB DiagnosticsOscilloscopeHardware R&D
Chris Garza with three Avatar humanoid robots on a fulfillment line
Close-range calibration of a humanoid robot arm
Multi-robot fulfillment operation in a live warehouse
In the field: Avatar Robotics live fulfillment deployments.
LeadershipFall 2024 – Present

UTA Robomasters (RoboMavs)

Vice President & Electrical Lead

Arlington, TX

Led electrical architecture for a competitive combat-robotics team that placed 2nd in Texas and 10th nationally at RMNA 2025.

  • Designed a custom X-drive suspension in SolidWorks, built with additive manufacturing for impact resilience.
  • Architected wiring harnesses, power distribution and embedded control for every robot on the team.
LeadershipX-DriveHarnessingEmbedded C++
ResearchSpring 2025 – Dec 2025

University of Texas at Arlington

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Arlington, TX

Industrial engineering and advanced robotics research with Dr. Overton.

  • Programmed Omron LD-60/90 autonomous mobile robots and integrated custom sensor payloads.
Omron LDAMRsSensor Integration

Selected work

Things I've designed, wired, printed and shipped.

Competition robots, production automation and the software that runs it.

UTA Robomasters competition robot with X-drive suspension
Robotics

Robomasters 2025

VP & Electrical Lead · UTA Robomasters

Combat robot with a custom X-drive suspension for omnidirectional movement at full speed. Owned the electrical system end to end: harnesses, power distribution, sensors and control firmware.

2nd in Texas · 10th nationally (28 teams)

ROSArduinoC++PCB DesignSolidWorks
Team
Software

Macroly.fit

AI fitness & nutrition tracking

AI-assisted fitness and nutrition tracker that turns logged meals and workouts into adaptive targets. Cross-platform client with a Supabase backend and a web dashboard.

FlutterReactTypeScriptSupabaseAI
Live
Robotics

Icarus Autonomous Extraction

Zero-touch print farm

Robotic part removal that clears finished prints from the build plate and queues the next job, turning a print farm into a lights-out production cell.

Robotic ArmsAutomationBambu LabCAD
Software

Print Farm Ops Platform

Inventory & job tracking for Icarus

Real-time filament inventory, job tracking and printer fleet status. Stock alerts and automated reorder triggers keep production from stalling on materials.

FlutterSupabasePostgreSQLRealtime
Hardware

3D-Printed Widebody Kit

2016 Chevrolet Malibu

Parametric widebody panels modeled to the car's exact geometry, split for print-bed fit and printed in TPU and ABS for flex and UV resistance.

SolidWorksParametric CADTPUABSBambu Studio
Hardware

High-Power Rocketry

National Association of Rocketry member

Rocket designs simulated in OpenRocket for stability margin, apogee and recovery before anything gets built.

OpenRocketSimulationCAD

Capabilities

The full stack, from copper to cloud.

Hardware first, then manufacturing, then the software that ties it together.

Robotics & Hardware

Robotics
ROSAMR fleets (Omron LD)Actuator repairSensor integration
Embedded
ArduinoSTM32Raspberry PiNVIDIA JetsonVerilog (FPGA)
Electronics
KiCad 9PCB layoutSolderingWiring harnessesOscilloscope diagnostics

CAD & Manufacturing

CAD
SolidWorksAutodesk FusionAutoCADOpenRocket
Additive
Bambu Lab fleetOrca SlicerBambu StudioPrint farm automation
Materials
TPUABSPETGCF-Nylon

Software & Web

Languages
PythonTypeScriptC++Dart
Frameworks
FlutterNext.jsReactTailwind CSS
Backend
SupabaseFirebasePostgreSQL
Portrait of Chris Garza

Education

Robotics & Embedded Systems Engineering

University of Advancing Technology (UAT)

About

Engineering at the point where robots meet the real world.

I like the part of robotics most people never see: the moment a machine leaves the lab and has to work on a real floor, for a real shift, next to real people. At Avatar Robotics that meant keeping a humanoid fleet at 98% uptime, one connector, one firmware patch and one SOP at a time.

Today I'm a deployment engineer at Dexory, putting autonomous inventory-scanning robots to work in live warehouses. Alongside that I'm studying Robotics and Embedded Systems Engineering at UAT and building Icarus, an automated print farm where robots pull finished parts and restart jobs without anyone touching the machines. It's the same problem from the other side: designing hardware that scales because it doesn't need babysitting.

I work across the stack, from KiCad schematics and STM32 firmware to SolidWorks assemblies and the Flutter or Next.js apps that run the operation. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

  • Field robotics
  • Embedded systems
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Hardware startups

Contact

Let's build something that works outside the lab.

Hiring for robotics, deployment or embedded roles, or curious about Icarus? Reach out directly or send a note here.