Akshay Pramod Roy
Co-Founder & CTO
Flotive AI Physical AI · Energy Permitting · Autonomous Systems
Deploying AI Where Errors Have Real-World Consequences
Akshay Roy is Co-Founder and CTO of Flotive AI, where he leads engineering on AI systems that automate permitting and compliance workflows for energy projects — compressing timelines that once took months and helping critical infrastructure come online faster.
Before founding Flotive, Akshay spent nearly a decade in the physical AI and autonomy space, building robots and autonomous machines that had to make reliable decisions in the real world, where software errors have immediate physical consequences. As Team Lead at GPR, he led engineering for mapping, localization, and autonomous vehicle perception. At Vecna Robotics, he was part of the core technical autonomy team.
That foundation — shipping AI in systems that couldn't afford to be wrong — is the lens through which he now approaches deploying AI in regulated, high-consequence industries. Akshay holds a Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech.
Expertise
- •AI Systems for Regulated Industries
- •Energy Permitting & Compliance Automation
- •Physical AI & Autonomous Systems
- •Robotics Perception & Localization
- •Production-Grade ML Engineering
- •Georgia Tech ECE
Signature Moves
- •Co-Founder & CTO — Flotive AI
- •Former Team Lead — GPR (Mapping, Localization & AV Perception)
- •Former Core Autonomy Engineer — Vecna Robotics
- •Nearly a Decade in Physical AI & Autonomous Machines
- •Compressing Energy Project Timelines from Months to Weeks
- •M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering — Georgia Tech
“In regulated, high-consequence industries, AI has to be right the first time — there is no room for 'move fast and break things.”
– Akshay Pramod Roy
