# Asier Arranz **Senior Staff Developer Advocate @ NVIDIA · Robotics & Physical AI** [asierarranz@gmail.com](mailto:asierarranz@gmail.com) · [+34 659 779 666](tel:+34659779666) · [asierarranz.com](https://www.asierarranz.com) · [linkedin.com/in/asierarranz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/asierarranz) · [github.com/asierarranz](https://github.com/asierarranz) ## Summary I make robots learn in GPU simulation and then prove it on real hardware, on whatever each demo needs, from an 8 GB Jetson to the biggest GPUs NVIDIA makes. I build the whole Physical AI pipeline: physics sim, models, language interface, and the ops to keep it alive on a show floor. My format is the live demo: real hardware, running in front of the audience. The demo is the visible part; the job is getting the new stack into developers' hands. I ship the code, the guides and the upstream fixes so people can build on top. ## Experience ### Senior Staff Developer Advocate · *NVIDIA (Global)* | Oct 2024 - present I do live robot demos, write hands-on guides, and publish open source around NVIDIA's simulation and robot learning stack (Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Jetson). Some things I built in this role: - **Physical AI demo in production (Japan).** I designed and built the whole thing: a smart factory simulated with **Newton** and MuJoCo-Warp GPU physics, a Unitree G1 humanoid walking on a reinforcement learning locomotion policy, and a Franka arm. You control all of it with natural language, in English, Spanish or Japanese. It's deployed at an NVIDIA center in Japan with automatic failover, and I trained the local team that operates it today. - **VR teleoperation for the GR00T N1.7 + LeRobot launch with Hugging Face.** I built teleoperation of the SO-101 arm in **Isaac Lab** with a Quest 3 over CloudXR. The streaming was unstable, so I found the root cause and sent two pull requests upstream to NVIDIA **Isaac Teleop**: PR #726 (frame-rate lifecycle: p95 one-way latency from ~54 ms to 10-13 ms, packet loss from 3.9% to 0.06%) and PR #753 (streaming defaults documentation) [Seeed coverage](https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2026/07/08/seeed-rebot-arm-successfully-integrates-with-lerobot-v0-6-0-completing-the-robot-learning-loop-in-nvidia-isaac-simulation/). - **NemoCast, Computex 2026 (Taipei).** A live AI news show hosted by two UBTECH Alpha Mini humanoid robots. **Gemma 4**, Kokoro TTS and live English to Mandarin translation running locally on a single 8 GB Jetson Orin Nano Super at the NVIDIA booth. - **World model demos (NVIDIA Cosmos).** Interactive video generation on 8x H100s: a slider to compare real vs generated footage, and a live viewer that shows every denoising step while the model generates. - **On-device video generation (GTC Taipei).** A full text-to-video pipeline (LTX-2.3, 22B parameters) running entirely on one **DGX Spark** (GB10 Grace Blackwell), no cloud. - **The macOS flashing workflow for DGX Spark.** I built it because I needed it for my own units, and NVIDIA adopted it as the official workflow. - **Google Tokyo & Paris (2024-2025).** I presented the international debut of Gemma 2 at the Gemma Developer Day in Tokyo, with the demo live on Jetson and a surprise appearance by Google's CEO [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd7VJ-TKb8I), and the Gemma 3 launch at Google's Paris office. ### Technical Marketing Engineer, Jetson Embedded & Robotics · *NVIDIA (EMEA)* | Oct 2020 - Sep 2024 - Every time a new wave of generative models dropped (**GPT, Llama, Mixtral, Qwen, LLaVa, InternVL** and other multimodal models), I got them running on Jetson embedded devices as soon as the weights were out, and published the guides and demos for the developer community. - I ran the Jetson education funnel in EMEA: professors got hardware grants, became Jetson AI Ambassadors, and taught the certified course to their students. - My bar for every launch demo: a developer should be able to deploy it in under 15 minutes. That meant preconfigured images with samples, shared repos, tutorials, and pull requests. - I gave the talks and ran the demos at international events, and wrote educational material for partners, universities and enterprise developers. ### Global Quantum Community Lab Lead · *IBM Research (New York)* | Apr 2019 - Oct 2020 - I built and led a team of designers, developers and creative technologists to grow the Qiskit developer community. We ran demos at the IBM booth at **CES** and at the **World Economic Forum** in Davos, and hackathons in the Swiss Alps and in the mountains outside Tokyo. - I got into IBM by winning the IBM Quantum hackathon (Qiskit Camp 2019) with an XR quantum circuit viewer. ### Oculus Launchpad Fellow · *Meta (California)* | Jun 2018 - Mar 2019 - I built the world's first 6DOF "Mario Kart" style VR experience in my apartment, on a Lenovo Mirage Solo [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbqJM-JmMak). I presented it at Oculus Connect in San Jose, and it was recognized among the top VR projects of the Launchpad cohort. ### Developer Program Manager · *ConsenSys (Brooklyn)* | Apr - Jun 2018 - Designed and taught Ethereum smart contract training (Python) for executive and engineering teams in Zurich and Singapore. ### Head of Technology Lab & International MBA Professor · *IE Business School (Madrid)* | Feb 2016 - Apr 2018 - I founded the Technology Lab and designed the "WOW Room", an immersive classroom that won the Reimagine Education Award. Teacher Excellence Award in 2017 and 2018. ## Independent Work - **AskSkynet.com (Feb 2019).** The first public web interface to chat with a GPT model: I put OpenAI's GPT-2 (117M) online right after its release, years before ChatGPT [story](https://medium.com/@asierarranz/the-chatgpt-before-chatgpt-how-i-created-a-chatgpt-4-years-ago-afefc9bfbcb4). In June 2020 I got the same demo running fully local on a Jetson Xavier NX, and that demo helped me join NVIDIA that October. ## Patents - **US 11,580,286**: 3D visualization of quantum circuits (IBM), developed before similar work at Google Quantum AI [patent](https://patents.justia.com/patent/11580286). ## Invited Talks & Live Demonstrations - **Google Tokyo**: international debut of Gemma 2, live demo on Jetson (2024). - **Google Paris**: Gemma 3 launch (2025). - **GTC**: talks and demos on LLMs, robotics and edge AI (2020-2026). - **GTC Taipei**: my session "How to Run Open Models and Agentic AI Efficiently at the Edge" (2026) [replay](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtctaipei26-stw61066/). - **Computex (Taipei)**: Physical AI demos at the NVIDIA booth (2026). - **CES & World Economic Forum (Davos)**: quantum computing demos at the IBM booth (2019-2020). - **TEDx**: multiple editions (2015-2024). - **MIT Enterprise Forum**: AI innovation roundtables (2019-2024). - **Talent Land Mexico**: main stage keynote (2019). - **Oculus Connect (San Jose)**: presented my 6DOF VR project (2018). ## Awards & Honors - **IBM Quantum Hackathon** winner, Qiskit Camp (2019) · **TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon** winner (2015) [feature](https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2015/11/developer-month-asier-arranz-brings-winning-ways-2015-techcrunch-disrupt) · First **HoloLens** developer in Europe, Microsoft (2016) · **Google-BBVA InnovaApps+** winner (2014) · **Qualcomm Developer of the Month** (2015). - **Business Insider** listed me among the top Spanish tech voices [article](https://www.businessinsider.es/tecnologia/30-espanoles-mundo-tecnologia-deberias-seguir-187268). ## Education ### Telecommunications Engineering · *University of Deusto (Bilbao)* | 2003 - 2008 - ProUD Alumni: picked as one of the 50 distinguished graduates of the faculty [ProUD](https://proud.deusto.es/alumni/). ## Technical Skills - **Robotics & Simulation:** Isaac Sim & Isaac Lab, Isaac Teleop, Newton & MuJoCo-Warp GPU physics, GR00T (VLA), LeRobot SO-100/101, XR teleoperation (CloudXR, Quest 3), USD, reinforcement & imitation learning. - **Edge AI:** Jetson (Orin Nano, Thor), DGX Spark (GB10), TensorRT, quantization (GGUF, NVFP4), llama.cpp, vLLM, Whisper ASR, Kokoro TTS, on-device speech pipelines. - **AI Models:** LLMs / VLMs / VLAs (Qwen, Gemma, Llama, Nemotron), NVIDIA Cosmos world models, LTX video generation, diffusion & LoRA fine-tuning, model evaluation. - **Software:** Python, PyTorch, CUDA fundamentals, C++, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Go, FastAPI, Docker, Linux deployment (systemd, Tailscale, observability). Spanish (native), English (fluent). --- *Generated from [asierarranz.com/resume](https://www.asierarranz.com/resume/)*