Jaime Waydo is a product and technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading across engineering, technology, product, operations (overseas & domestic), regulatory and safety functions. She has served a wide group of industry leading companies including Alphabet, Apple, Translucent Medical, Hansen Medical and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Jaime brings her product and technology skills combined with her operational acumen to support CEOs and boards in transitioning technology into shipping at scale, driving efficiencies in the organization, and thinking through product and technology trades.

Prior to joining WHOOP, she served as a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cavnue, an early stage startup building connected infrastructure technology to enable autonomous driving technology to ship at scale in the next few years. She joined the company in early 2021 and was responsible for the Product, Technology, and Operations of Cavnue.

Jaime brings strong experience across all phases of technology development. At Apple she led the autonomous systems effort through a 10x improvement in a single year and helped bring to life the product vision that moved the program from research to project execution. She then established the framework and strategy to deliver this safety critical product into a highly regulated environment.

At Waymo, Jaime created the safety strategy for launching driverless vehicles in both Texas and Arizona, working through local, state, and federal regulations as well as tying in to the marketing and product strategies for those launches. Once launched in Arizona, Jaime led a 4 month effort to drive new software releases from 9 months down to 3 weeks allowing Waymo to ship new product features to customers every month at a scale never before possible.

Early career experience was as a mechanical engineer where Jaime was the lead mechanical systems engineer for the Mars Curiosity Rover that launched in 2011 and is still running today. She also was the lead mechanical engineer at Hansen medical where she led the effort to redesign the robot that helped surgeons conduct AFib surgeries robotically. She also worked as the lead engineer at Translucent medical where she built the first product that shipped and sold to hospitals across the world. She later helped sell the IP of the company so she could pursue her passion of working on robots for mobility.