Keith Gariepy began his technical journey self-teaching DOS on a Commodore VIC-20, sparking a lifelong obsession with systems. This evolved into a diverse career in the Audio Visual space, where he mastered every layer of the stack—from sales and programming to high-level design consulting. Today, he applies that seasoned technical vision to the frontier of AI, moving from architecting AV environments to architecting the hardware safety standards for embodied intelligence.