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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Lead the team to ship robotics/embedded solutions and facilitated architecture discussions, process improvements, planning, and other agile rituals.• Coordinated with leadership to define strategy and roadmap features and improvements to build a three‑year technical roadmap in alignment with team and company direction.• Translating the roadmap into engineering goals for the team and communicating with the stakeholders.• Utilized CI/CD technologies to streamline development and… Show more • Lead the team to ship robotics/embedded solutions and facilitated architecture discussions, process improvements, planning, and other agile rituals.• Coordinated with leadership to define strategy and roadmap features and improvements to build a three‑year technical roadmap in alignment with team and company direction.• Translating the roadmap into engineering goals for the team and communicating with the stakeholders.• Utilized CI/CD technologies to streamline development and deployment processes, enhancing overall team productivity.• Empowering and growing the number of engineers in my new role through many technical and cultural changes. Conducting 1‑on‑1s regularly and mentoring the team to ensure individual growth.• Delivering features for the business by closely working with the PMs, QA, and Core Technical Team.• Collaborated with marketing managers to brainstorm impact-full campaigns to creatively match marketing goals with appropriate technicalplans. Show less

Kochi, Kerala, India

Kochi, Kerala, India

• Led the development of high‑fidelity automotive software‑in‑the‑loop simulation environments, optimizing for scalability and automation.• Developed the team’s proficiency in project management, operational excellence, and technical mastery which helped in running all agileceremonies including planning, backlog maintenance, sprint review, and daily standup.• Coordinated cross‑team projects around AI, Robotics and Embedded Systems to plan and timeline core features.• Facilitated… Show more • Led the development of high‑fidelity automotive software‑in‑the‑loop simulation environments, optimizing for scalability and automation.• Developed the team’s proficiency in project management, operational excellence, and technical mastery which helped in running all agileceremonies including planning, backlog maintenance, sprint review, and daily standup.• Coordinated cross‑team projects around AI, Robotics and Embedded Systems to plan and timeline core features.• Facilitated architecture discussions, process improvements, planning, and other agile rituals alongside regular codebase contributions.• Work directly with marketing, operations, and design teams to ensure products meet business demands.• Budget, evaluate, and onboard new technology solutions for internal use.• Built a team roadmap outlining a multi‑year vision of deliverables aligned with organizational goals. Show less

Kochi, Kerala, India

• Worked as an Product Lead on many new initiatives including development of early‑stage road‑map for Warehouse Robotics & Self Driving Car-Tech including design of the Autonomous Vehicle Test Bench build using ROS framework (Ackermann Drive Control & Nav. Stack).• Involved in porting of DVB‑S2 protocol for a Software Defined Radio chipset(Saankhya Labs Prithvi‑3) which includes code development, unittesting and integrated testing on two Signal Processing DSP cores running in parallel.

Kochi, Kerala, India

• Involved in AUV systems build on ROS platform (autonomy, dynamic control, payload interfaces), power systems for AUVs, network design andarchitecture.• Real time video feed analysis for anomaly detection using Deep Learning based techniques.• Worked with embedded systems design, mixed signal design, power electronics, motor controllers, battery management systems, hardwaredesign for harsh environments, design for manufacturing, design to cost, configuration management.•… Show more • Involved in AUV systems build on ROS platform (autonomy, dynamic control, payload interfaces), power systems for AUVs, network design andarchitecture.• Real time video feed analysis for anomaly detection using Deep Learning based techniques.• Worked with embedded systems design, mixed signal design, power electronics, motor controllers, battery management systems, hardwaredesign for harsh environments, design for manufacturing, design to cost, configuration management.• Responsible for managing the electrical team both day‑to‑day and strategically, staffing projects and proposals, and participating in businessdevelopment activities including bid and proposal preparation and generation of cost estimates.• Worked with the different functionality to provides leadership for the definition, deployment and execution of the electrical engineering tools,processes, and activities.• Developed and deployed processes, technologies, and practices that support the varied needs of projects. Show less

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Worked with a small team to design, develop and test robust autonomous navigation capabilities for UGV/UAV with ROS.• Involved in the testing, calibration and integration of motion planning algorithm for autonomous systems, computer vision systems for objectrecognition and pose detection, robotic localization systems and robotic kinematic control.• Design of real time embedded modules with Embedded processors, FPGA, analog & digital circuits.• Involved in creating Wiring… Show more • Worked with a small team to design, develop and test robust autonomous navigation capabilities for UGV/UAV with ROS.• Involved in the testing, calibration and integration of motion planning algorithm for autonomous systems, computer vision systems for objectrecognition and pose detection, robotic localization systems and robotic kinematic control.• Design of real time embedded modules with Embedded processors, FPGA, analog & digital circuits.• Involved in creating Wiring diagrams & PCB design layouts with selection of actuators & sensors, for Electro‑Mechanical integration.• Managed over one major robotics research projects and two product development cycles in this role. Show less

Master Of Technology - Mtech, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Activities and Societies: - Awarded Best Paper, (at ICICICIT‑2017) for the Paper on ”Design and Modelling of a Cable Driven Cart‑Rail.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: - Received letter of appreciation, (at Technologia‑2010) on account of organizing Robotics Event. C.G., India.

Higher Secondary, Science With Computers

Higher School