Jul 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

• Working on using VR as an enabling technology in large-scale industrial automation for developing cutting-edge systems which will eventually make this work obsolete :).
• Developed a state-of-the-art platform for telerobotics.
• Provided support for 7-dof arm robots through the same telerobotics system (plus a secret internal robot).
• Made it globally accessible through a Web 3D interface (think Stadia but cooler)! Led to a 4x increase in reach to researchers, and significantly reduced onboarding time for new users.
• Helped robot wranglers collect data for various tasks through the platform.
• Designed solutions to help Deep Reinforcement Learning researchers improve data collection, leading to higher sample efficiency and better performing models.
• Helped automate new robotics benchmark tasks using the platform for data-collection and as a model gym.

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos

• Developing a WebXR launcher with Prof. Blair, Director@Mozilla, targeted at AR displays which can sense 3D surfaces.
• Extended the ARML 2.0 specification and made a unified format for adding apps/feeds to launcher.
• Made a realtime XR surface parser which dynamically arranges apps around the user.
• Coded in Three.js and WebXR to make it browser compatible across all devices.

May 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr

• Developing and maintaining cloud scale applications for the Research Network Operations Center(RNOC), GeorgiaTech's network research lab.
• Scaled an Openshift Container Platform cloud, a docker based cloud for running micro-services open to GeorgiaTech members.
• Extended the Smart Sea Level Sensors project, and currently implementing Geo-resiliency using multiple cloud providers.
• Maintained ~100% uptime of the cloud through multiple points of failure including power outages and other hardware issues.

Dec 2017 – Jun 2018 · 6 mos · India

• Worked on varying projects including a sports statistics analysis system for Cricket, and an interactive VR experience for an investigative journalism program.
• Clients include upcoming startups in India and PBS(US).

Mar 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Engineered Housing’s VR product from scratch as an individual contributor, driving 0-1 product development without significant tech/product leadership involvement.
• Designed intensive usability testing programs; experimented with every facet of design and tech to deliver a state-of-the-art result.
• Set up a VR team of driven designers, and developers, leading them through continuous innovation.
• Automated VR creator for interior models.
• Developed and maintained the backend, and android app for the VR product.

Dec 2014 – Mar 2015 · 3 mos

• Built the routing system for Housing’s map interface. Features like multi-transit isoline generation were efficiently designed for response times <200ms.
• Integrated the system with the existing micro-service architecture and made it massively scalable.
• Designed an efficient polygon and fid/address crawler for cities from Google’s Mapmaker.

Aug 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune Area, India

• Contributed to the SGW+PGW nodes in the LTE architecture. Gained an in-depth understanding of high-scale, low-level C code, following stellar software engineering practices including AGILE, peer reviews and version control.
• Delivered a graphical network debugger as a solo project; using Cisco’s monitor protocol to inter-node communication.

Jan 2013 – Jun 2013 · 5 mos · Pune Area, India

• Completed a partial simulator for the SAEGW(SGW+PGW) node, and extended it into an automation framework.
• Scripted automated unit and integrated testing for every release, helping subsequent releases become much faster by reducing QA load.