Engineer striving to solve real world problems.

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA 

Aug 2021- May 2023

Master of Science in Robotics Engineering, GPA 3.66/4.0

Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management (RCOEM), Nagpur, India 

Jul 2014- May 2018

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.14/4.0

Work experience

Robotics Engineering Intern, Calvary Robotics, Rochester, NY May 2022 - Aug 2022 

• Improved the usability and operability of a robotic system consisting of two KUKA robots mounted on a vehicular platform, used for the solar panel placement application.
• Coordinated with other engineers and project manager to identify field issues and enhance test plan/cases based on the customer feedback into the robotic system.

• Added user-centric functionalities to the vision system using rospy based scripts and rosbridge websocket server for the Javascript based graphical user interface (GUI).
• Added customer-centric functionalities to the robotic position estimation and manipulator motion planning process using statemachine library in Python to improve the usability of the system.

• Reviewed functional specs, created and executed test plans covering the user interface, APIs and physical operation of the robot.

Mechatronics Engineer, Oxygen to Innovation, Noida, India 2019-2020

• Designed and developed a custom enterprise hexacopter prototype of around 1 meter wingspan capable of carrying 8-10 kg payload for a flight time of 30-40 minutes.
• Led the cross-functional drone development team and coordinated with and managed technical suppliers.

• Worked with Pixhawk/PX4 flight controllers, troubleshooting, debugging and testing various aspects related to drone stability.
• Created realistic physical test environments for the hexacopter to test its stability and balance.
• Designed CAD model of a dropping mechanism and prototyped it using 3D printing/rapid prototyping technique for the enterprise hexacopter, capable of housing 6 packages at a time and dropping them one by one or all at once.

Associate Software Engineer, Accenture Technology, Mumbai, India 2018-2019

• Developed a small-scale database management system in an agile development environment incorporating banking services on Oracle DBMS using PL/SQL.
• Identify trends in failures and implement countermeasures to prevent recurrence of failures for the frontend and backend of the database management system.

• Initiate and participate in process improvements for the customer interaction process of the database management system.
• Developed user friendly frontend for the DBMS and also an efficient backend for the system in order to provide quick and smooth experience for the customer.