Robotics & Autonomous Systems Engineer with 3+ years of experience across autonomous vehicles at Caterpillar and industrial robotics at Tata Motors. I build ROS 2 and C++17 systems for sensor fusion, SLAM, perception, and navigation, backed by simulation, calibration, and robotics validation.
Robotics & Autonomy
ROS 2, C++17, Nav2
Perception & SLAM
LiDAR, UKF, YOLO
Industrial Robotics
PLCs, vision, recovery
About
I develop autonomous off-highway vehicle systems at Caterpillar, building on industrial robotics and automation experience at Tata Motors. My completed M.S. in Computer Science and projects in robot fault recovery and visual inspection support that work with simulation, systems debugging, and AI/ML.
Caterpillar
Aug 2025 – Present · USA
Develop a ROS 2 Humble autonomy stack for Cat 777 quarry trucks. Build C++17 UKF sensor fusion, integrate RTAB-Map and Cartographer SLAM, and connect YOLOv8 perception to Nav2 costmaps for navigation and collision avoidance. Validate in CARLA, Gazebo Ignition, and MuJoCo with Docker-based regression testing and sensor calibration.
Tata Motors
Jun 2022 – Jun 2024 · India
Commissioned ABB, FANUC, and KUKA assembly and material-handling stations with Siemens S7-1500 PLC control and Profinet communication. Integrated Cognex vision, Python/OpenCV validation, and OPC-UA/Grafana monitoring. Reduced cycle time by 12%, improved defect detection accuracy by 10%, and reduced unplanned stoppages by 8%.
93.8%
perception mAP
Quarry scenarios · Caterpillar
12%
cycle-time reduction
Robotic assembly · Tata Motors
63 min
simulation run
10×10 order workload · 0 failures
0.99
mAP@50
Six-class PCB visual inspection
Education
California State University, Fullerton
M.S. Computer Science · Completed · Aug 2024 – Aug 2026
GPA 3.8 / 4.0
JNTUH College of Engineering
B.Tech Computer Science · Aug 2020 – May 2024
Completed
Selected Work
Robot fault recovery and visual inspection, supported by applied AI/ML and software projects.
GitHub profileDebugged unexpected robot stops in an Isaac Sim simulation using robot-state, coordinate, LiDAR, and orientation telemetry. Traced false obstacle detections to robot tilt, then developed monitoring and recovery behavior to keep the autonomous workflow running.
63-minute simulation · 10×10 order workload · 0 failures
Benchmarked YOLO11s/m/l and RT-DETR-L for six-class PCB inspection, with YOLO11l at 1280px delivering the reported results. Live Hugging Face demo with annotated detections, pass/review verdicts, and JSON/CSV export; ONNX export with a documented Jetson/TensorRT path. Accepted ESCS’26 / CSCE’26 Springer paper.
98.3% precision · 98.8% recall · 0.99 mAP@50 · 31 ms/image · six defect classes
Production-style transaction fraud scoring on the IEEE-CIS dataset: XGBoost inference, cost-based thresholding, Tree SHAP explainability, Evidently drift monitoring, FastAPI service, and a Streamlit workbench.
Four-agent healthcare decision-support platform with orchestration, retrieval, recommendations, explainability, safety guardrails, audit logging, and a Dockerized REST API.
TensorFlow/Keras autoencoder pipeline for industrial fan audio anomaly detection using Librosa log-mel spectrogram features and reproducible evaluation workflows.
NLP-driven trading simulation combining BERT-scored financial news, Yahoo Finance data, confidence-weighted trade decisions, and historical backtesting.
Deep-learning image classifier using Inception-ResNet-V2 across 120+ dog breeds with 90%+ accuracy, GPU-accelerated training, and OpenCV preprocessing on 10,000+ images.
Student-facing academic advising platform with a responsive React interface, Firebase-backed real-time data integration, and usability-focused workflows.
Flask image-classification service with batch uploads, confidence scoring, health and metrics endpoints, image-hash caching, retry handling, pytest, and CI.
Cafe discovery app with geolocation, Google Maps & Places APIs, and a card-based UI for nearby place discovery.
Open Source
Pull requests across open-source ML and developer tooling repos, including merged work on falsify-inspect and licinexus-mcp.
Live Activity
Pulled from recent public GitHub events plus direct repository commit checks, including this portfolio.
Capabilities
Resume
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