Anup Pemmaiah is the founder and CEO of Morix Robotics, a startup building a deployment engine that validates and safeguards robot actions in production, helping robot fleets move from demos to reliable operation. He was a founding engineer at Apex.AI, where he spent nearly a decade building the company's safety-certified autonomous driving software, rising to VP of Engineering before moving to an advisory role in 2026. Earlier he was a system architect at Faraday Future and held engineering roles at Oracle and Sun Microsystems. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Utah State University.