Vasily Starostenko Fleet Operations
The problem: most autonomous and robotics companies are research organizations wearing an operations costume. The vehicle works; everything around it doesn't. Nobody owns the blocked-lane-at-2-a.m. scenario. Monitoring is a dashboard nobody watches. Escalation paths are tribal knowledge. Companies discover these gaps city by city, incident by incident — paying tuition in public.
Why Vasily: from 2019 to 2021 he led product for driverless fleet operations at Waymo, taking autonomous ride-hailing from research through multi-city commercialization. His team owned the unglamorous machinery that makes autonomy a business: monitoring systems, escalation design, the human factors of supervising machines. He is a co-inventor on four granted US patents — vigilance testing, situational awareness testing, head-movement monitoring, fatigue monitoring — that harden exactly the layer where fleet operations fail.
What you get: a fleet operations blueprint covering monitoring architecture, escalation design, and incident response; a safety systems review of how your human supervisors actually stay effective inside an automated operation; and ongoing advisory as you scale across cities and vehicle counts. Commercialization is a discipline — this is how you practice it.
The proof: two years operating a driverless fleet through the research-to-revenue transition, four patents in autonomy safety engineering, and twenty years of product leadership at Uber, Tesla, Waymo, and Revolut. A regular speaker on automation, he asks the 3-a.m. questions first.
Multi-city commercialization is where operations theory meets municipal reality. Every new city brings its own regulations, road geometry, weather, and rider expectations — and the fleet operation has to absorb all of it without reinventing itself each time. That means playbooks for launch, standardized monitoring that works anywhere, and escalation systems that route the right problem to the right human in seconds. Vasily's work at Waymo covered exactly this transition: from a system that worked in one place to an operation that could be trusted in many.
Contact Vasily Starostenko Phone: +1 (650) 523-4953 — tap the call button on this page to reach him directly. Priority scheduling ($2,000 to speed up scheduling): https://buy.stripe.com/aEUdTVbwtfjn5A49AA Every engagement is confidential, tailored, and focused on measurable outcomes.
Vasily Starostenko — Consulting
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