Mehul joined Apex.AI as the head of safety in May 2019, chartered with the task of leading safety-certification of industry-first automotive-grade software framework based on ROS2. Before joining Apex.AI, Mehul had a long and productive career at Intel in various leadership roles spanning almost 20 years. There Mehul worked on several aspects of silicon engineering but with a primary focus on testing and validation of microprocessors. Mehul holds an MS in Electrical & Computer Engg from University of North Carolina and a MBA from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Apex.AI was founded in 2017 in Palo Alto to build robust, reliable, safe, secure, and certified software for autonomous mobility systems. Apex.OS is a runtime software environment, which is built on ROS 2 (Robot Operating System) and provides a production-grade safety-certified realtime framework for developing safe and secure applications.