We often say that p!ng is "moving at the speed of code," but today we want to introduce you to the person leading that charge.

In Episode 9 of The Morning p!ng, we sit down with our CTO, Rory MacKean. Rory is an MIT-trained robotics engineer who has built everything from factory automation systems to solar-powered weeding robots.

Why Rory joined p!ng: In the startup world, you can build the coolest tech in the world, but if nobody wants it, you don’t have a business. Rory shares the story of the day he visited the p!ng pod in Hudson: Rob put out a "Free Drinks" sign, and cars immediately turned in.

For a robotics engineer, that "market pull" is the ultimate green light.

In this episode, we dive into:

• The Queuing Nightmare: Why traditional drive-thrus are a broken math problem and how our geofencing fixes it.

• Building in Public: Why we test with real customers (and deal with real world problems like cellular outages) instead of hiding in a lab.

• The Human Element: Why our "site hosts" are actually an asset to the autonomous experience.