Summary
Tom Eliaz is a co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Bedrock Robotics, where he oversees infrastructure, data, and applications for the company’s autonomous construction equipment. He previously led engineering organizations at Twilio and Segment, and earlier in his career built high-scale cloud infrastructure at consumer robotics company Anki, where he first worked with Bedrock co-founder and CEO Boris Sofman.
Career
Eliaz holds a B.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Before co-founding Bedrock, he spent over two decades in software engineering leadership across robotics, cloud infrastructure, and AI (YesPress).
Early in his career, Eliaz was an early employee at Anki, the San Francisco consumer robotics company co-founded by Boris Sofman, where he led the development of cloud platforms for Anki’s robotics products, including the Cozmo and Vector robots. He has described Anki as cultivating an environment where people came to work joyfully, collaboratively, and without ego — a culture he has said he aims to replicate at Bedrock (RoboticsTomorrow).
After Anki, Eliaz joined Segment, a customer data platform, where he led a variety of infrastructure and product areas. He built out Segment’s New York City engineering office and developed computational products that became a key part of Segment’s eventual $3.2 billion acquisition by Twilio in 2020 (YesPress).
Following the acquisition, Eliaz remained at Twilio, where he was promoted to Vice President of Engineering, leading the Twilio Engage organization — an engineering team of over 100 people overseeing multiple products, high-scale computation, and AI initiatives. He held that role from 2020 to 2024 (YesPress; ELC).
In 2024, Eliaz left Twilio to co-found Bedrock Robotics alongside Boris Sofman, Kevin Peterson, and Ajay Gummalla. At Bedrock, he serves as Vice President of Engineering, overseeing all aspects of infrastructure, data, and applications. Unlike his three co-founders, who came from Waymo’s autonomous-vehicle program, Eliaz brought complementary experience in scaling engineering organizations, cloud infrastructure, and product development from his time at Segment and Twilio (LinkedIn).
In a 2025 interview, Eliaz described Bedrock’s approach to engineering: “Since the start, we have focused on ambitious and medium-term milestones, and have used these as the foundation for aligning all our workstreams… Our focus on milestones that we continually revisit helps us move quickly by providing autonomy to engineers, as we execute short, medium-term work simultaneously” (RoboticsTomorrow).
Eliaz has also previously founded a healthcare technology company, though specific details about that venture have not been publicly disclosed (YesPress; ELC).
Source Notes
This profile draws on Tom Eliaz’s LinkedIn, a YesPress profile covering his career path and role at Bedrock, an ELC speaker biography, a RoboticsTomorrow Q&A on Bedrock’s engineering approach, and Bedrock Robotics’ company website. Some details about his early healthcare-technology venture are mentioned in multiple sources but not elaborated upon, so they are noted here without further detail.