AJ Cassarella · Denver

Autonomous robotics · Writing · Music

AJ
CASSARELLA

I lead the teams that put autonomous robots to work in the world’s warehouses — and off the clock, I write at The Voyajer and make music. Twelve years turning hard problems into systems that ship.

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AJ Cassarella
01What I do

// What I do

Deploy the robots.
Write the story.
Make the music.

Three tracks, one throughline: take something ambiguous and make it real. By day I build the commercial and deployment engines behind autonomous material handling. By night I’m writing and producing under The Voyajer.

01

Autonomous systems

Solutions, deployment, and customer success for robotic fleets — from site survey to acceptance. I’ve cut cost-to-deploy 40% and scaled live fleets 150%.

02

The Voyajer

Essays and notes on technology, climate, creativity, and the road between them — published to a growing readership on Substack.

03

Sound & music

Original music produced through Voyajer Productions — released on Spotify and the major platforms.

RangeRobotics, writing & music
Experience12+ years in automation
StudioVoyajer Productions LLC
BaseDenver, Colorado

02 — About

The engineer who kept
wandering into the arts.

I’ve spent my career moving closer to how complex, physical work actually gets done. I’ve sat on both sides of the table in industrial automation — evaluating, justifying and buying material-handling systems, then selling, designing, deploying and supporting them. I build the processes that make robotics repeatable and profitable: standardized deployments, ROI models that survive customer scrutiny, and teams that scale.

Away from the warehouse floor, I run Voyajer Productions — an independent studio for music, writing and media. Originally from Pennsylvania and now based in Denver, I care about climate and conservation, the outdoors, and making things that outlast the deadline.

03 — Experience

Career chapters

  1. 2024 — Now

    Cyngn

    Sr. Manager, Customer Success & Solutions Engineering

    Lead solutions, deployment and customer success for an autonomous-vehicle fleet. Cut cost-to-deploy 40% and scaled deployed fleet 150%.

    DeploymentCustomer SuccessTeam Building
  2. 2023 — 2024

    Phantom Auto

    Senior Sales Engineer

    Rebuilt sales-to-engineering hand-off, roughly halving cycle time and expanding the customer base 30% in a year.

    Sales EngineeringProcess
  3. 2022 — 2023

    Wayfair

    Senior Manager, Material Handling Automation

    Owned the buying side of automation — delivered four projects in twelve months, $1M+ projected savings under a two-year payback.

    Capital JustificationVendor Selection
  4. 2021 — 2022

    Berkshire Grey

    Solutions Design Engineer, Warehouse Automation

    Built the company-wide RFP/RFI strategy across six industries, saving 40% of sales-cycle time.

    RFP StrategyAMRs & AGVs
  5. 2017 — 2020

    Seegrid

    Senior Sales & Deployment Engineer

    Led multi-million-dollar robotics deployments end to end while supervising a small engineering team.

    DeploymentLeadership
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// The Voyajer

Words worth
the detour.

New essays and field notes land on Substack. Read what’s there, or subscribe below to get the next one.

Read The Voyajer

04 — Connect

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in touch.

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