Experience

Three robotics roles across warehouse fleets and aerial swarms, plus earlier internships.

Tokyo, Japan · Oct 2025 – Aug 2026

Designed an auction-based task allocation algorithm where robots bid for tasks, removing the central-manager bottleneck and single point of failure.
Built a Zenoh pub-sub layer streaming real-time telemetry across the fleet, enabling low-latency decentralized decision-making.

Bangalore, India · Aug 2023 – Oct 2025

Implemented Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles (RVO) collision avoidance and state-machine behavior for a heterogeneous fleet of fixed-wing aircraft and multicopters.
Cut inter-drone bandwidth by 60% with LCM communication over a WiFi mesh.
Built simulation tooling (Gazebo terrain generator, payload-drop and target-tracking modules) to test missions virtually before flight.
Ran field tests and verified simulation behavior against real-world deployment at scale.
Integrated an in-house flight dynamics model with JSBSim for Collaborative Combat Aircraft work, shown at AERO India 2025.

Pune, India · Jun 2022 – Jul 2023

Designed a state-machine task allocation algorithm and a predictive battery scheduler for a sorting-robot fleet, improving uptime.
Built ROS2 fleet-manager-to-robot communication with static peer discovery, removing dynamic broadcast traffic at scale.
Built a shared error-handling pipeline across robot types, cutting per-robot development effort.
Led a configuration manager and OTA firmware module; deployment time down 50%, update time down 86%.

Earlier experience

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021

Autonomous waypoint navigation for UGVs with vision-based obstacle avoidance and base-station communication.

Oct 2020 – May 2021

ESP32 UV sterilization robot with waypoint navigation, obstacle detection and a web control interface.

Jun – Jul 2019

Autonomous guided vehicle work for industrial material handling.

University of Maryland, College Park, M.Eng. in Robotics, Fall 2026 – present. JN Tata Scholar.

Manipal Institute of Technology, B.Tech. in Mechatronics, 2017 – 2021 (GPA 8.56 / 10).

JN Tata Scholar, supporting my M.Eng. in Robotics at the University of Maryland.
Gazebo terrain generator is listed on the official Gazebo site.
1st place, Techfest IIT Bombay Covideate, 2020–21 (coverage).
3rd place, India International Science Festival 2020, Swasth Bharath category.
IEEE paper: Automatic switching of water motor pump: a new approach.
Begell House paper: Monitoring physiological data through wearable electronics.
Udemy course: ESP32: A Beginner’s Guide to IoT & Electronics.