Abhishek Sharma Email & Phone Number

Tokyo, Japan

Wear different hats to take robots from labs to scaling operations.PA-AMR Lead:Lead a cross functional team of 10+ engineers for Rapyuta's PA-AMR product https://www.rapyuta-robotics.com/solutions-pa-amr/ . The team is responsible for delivering all features of Rapyuta's PA-AMR product for all geographies.Behaviour control chapter lead: - Help engineers solve muti robot coordination problems and set the roadmap for the chapter.- Mentor other staff and lead engineers from sibling products.Architect for majority of software features:- io_amr - a full stack at the core of both Rapyuta's AMR and Forklift products. It has UI, Backend, multi robot control and the traditional ROS components to operate a fleet of heterogeneous robots.- Multi robot coordination and optimization strategies to increase throughput.- Intelligent traffic avoidance, group picking, replenishment, induction and picking workflows.- Robots coordination with external devices and MHE's.- Setup end to end observability pipeline - starting from instrumenting the 30+ services to set up the infrastructure to collect telemetry, transform it using etl pipeline and set up dashboards and alerts.Maintainer and evangelist for the open source multi robot control framework alica:https://github.com/rapyuta-robotics/alica ROS 2021 talk: https://vimeo.com/649645073 Bootstrapped and lead geographically distributed squad called Distributed-Intelligence that solves most of the company's robot coordination problems.Coordinate with project managers, customer success and sales to gather feedback and formulate technical requirements for new features. IP opportunities identification and IP harvesting (5 patents filed so far)Most important part - getting hands dirty - implementation and code reviews.

Bengaluru Area, India

 Design and development of distributed data streaming framework for thousands of microservice instances deployed on a cluster of constrained RaspberryPi devices in the Smart Factory complex. The 0mq ( https://zeromq.org/ ) based real-time messaging framework was part of the overall smart factory deployment using a modified version of the EdgeX foundry architecture ( https://www.edgexfoundry.org/about/ ).  Development of POC's and project proposals on emerging technologies like Blockchain (using Hyperledger - https://www.hyperledger.org/ ) and Edge computing (using EdgeX Foundry - https://www.edgexfoundry.org/ ).  Design and development of Connectivity Abstraction (IP, BT, BLE), Routing and CoAP-HTTP Proxy components for IoTivity. Stack was commercialised as part of Samsung Connect and SmartThings cloud apps on all flagship devices.IoTivity ( https://iotivity.org/ ) is an open-source project driven by 300+ multinational companies for enabling seamless connectivity between IoT devices based on Open Connectivity Foundation standard ( https://openconnectivity.org/ ).  Design, development and commercialization of AllShare Media Streaming framework on all flagship mobiles and TV units. It is running successfully on all popular Galaxy series devices since 2013 and was later merged into Samsung SmartView.

Bengaluru Area, India

 Development and maintenance of DMR (Digital Media Renderer) and DMP (Digital Media Player) profile for Renesas Smart Dongle ( An ARM based portable device that converted regular TV's into Smart TV's). Project was later showcased at IBC exhibition (Sep 2011 - Amsterdam.

Gurgaon, India

 Design and development of Sprint accessories E-commerce website that was used by Sprint telecom to sell accessories in bulk to wholesale customers. Portal had various product catalogs, Shopping basket, offers section and multiple user authorities. Design, development and production support for indianwildlifeclub.com. Portal provides various sections like Blogs, Group moderated chat, Articles, Online quizzes, trip reports and recommendations.