Dec 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Focus on reduction of operational costs of udaan in the medium to long term with specialisation on cloud infra and supply chain automation.
• Product Lead, Infrastructure
• Grew the infrastructure org from 1 person to 20+ who build and maintain the CI/CD stack, observability stack, data stores and compute stack used by 300+ engineers in the org.
• Team reduced cloud costs by 60% over 6 months towards profitability of udaan. Driving down cost by optimisation of all aspects of infrastructure, setting up a data center and enabling hybrid cloud for udaan.
• Evangelising a continuous product first approach to building systems.
• Defined the culture for open contribution from all engineers on internal tools and infrastructure.
• Product Lead, Supply Chain Automation
• Found the supply chain automation team at udaan from ideation and fund raising to running 4 in-house built hardware products in warehouses.
• Built a cross-functional team of mechanical, electronics, controls software engineers, product analysts, data scientists and program managers who handled end to end product life cycle from ideation to prototype to production to scaling up manufacturing.

Jun 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Morphle is building state of the art digital pathology system combined with computer aided and automated diagnostics.
• Founding engineer
• Built a whole slide scanner for pathologists from scratch to 10+ installations in <1 year. Responsible for scanner controls, backend infrastructure and full stack application used by pathologists along with AI infrastructure.
• Led the team that built the AI Tools for Pathology for cancer diagnosis as well as differential for blood slides.
• Travelled across the country for sales and product feedback with the device constantly optimising for users.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Designed and implemented a horizontally scalable data ingestion service for different kinds of data using kafka and handled all aspects of SDLC from development to operations to maintaining in production.
• As part of the first users of Kubernetes, designed and supported the deployment framework for microservices to production in an automated fashion.
• Worked on a generic aggregation service using kafka streams to rollup data in real time to be used by machine learning model training and prediction.

Sep 2015 – Apr 2016 · 7 mos · Kharagpur Area, India

• Supervised the selection of the first student team for Centre for Excellence in Robotics which is the umbrella body for all robotics at IIT Kharagpur. Setup the structure and working of the team and its responsibilities.
• Also, I was the sysadmin for the website server.

Jul 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr · IIT Kharagpur

• Initiated the group Aerial Robotics Kharagpur with a grant of 15L INR from IIT Kharagpur. Also, collaborated on application oriented projects for drones including Exploration and Agricultural purposes.
• Designed the entire stack from hardware architecture of aerial robotics to the software system for indoor and outdoor using ROS.
• Third Position in Grey Orange Accelerated Learning and won equipments like 3D printer and mechanical tool kits for the lab.
• Led the only Indian team at International Aerial Robotics Competition 2016 and received "Best Team Cooperation Award". Got covered by multiple media organisations for the same.
• My research proposal was also accepted by Imprint India 2016 getting funding of around 1.5 Crore INR ( ~225k USD).

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Tubingen Area

• Advised by Dr. Aamir Ahmad. The project aims to develop a multi-robot decentralised 3D tracking system using aerial robots. I developed a stereo from fish-eye camera using plane-sweep stereo and am currently working on shifting this into a variable moving baseline using robot poses. All processing is being done on-board Odroid processor which runs Telekyb which is an open-source framework for aerial robot control.
• I also developed a ROS Wrapper for ARM Boards for Basler Ace USB 3.0 Camera and designed Camera Holder Parts which were 3D printed.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Kharagpur I, India

• Governor: Initiated two research projects ARK and SIK with a total funding of INR 20 Lakhs. Also, started Kharagpur Robotics and Intelligence Seminar Series for discussions on robotics research for students. Inititiated the setup of Open-To-All Maker-Space Lab at IIT Kharagpur to allow easy access of Electronics Equipments and Mechanical Prototyping facility for the student community.
• Head: Lead Event Designer of online Coding event Sudocode designing problems on CV, AI, ML and NLP. Also, designed problem statements for code.sh during Bitwise 2014.

Jul 2014 – May 2015 · 10 mos · Kharagpur I, India

• I developed and improved the vision module for the detection and orientation estimation of the robots from an over-head feed. Also, I developed the strategy module that will select what action to be run by which robot and added a heuristic method to select the same for improved performance.. I participated in FIRA World Cup held in Malaysia 2013 and Beijing 2014 and were the only Indian team to win the match. We were also the only team to manufacture our own robots unlike industrially manufactured purchased robots used by other teams.

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Singapore

• Advised by Prof. Srikanthan. The project aimed to develop a pedestrian tracking system on a moving car for an advanced driver assistance system.
• I developed a pedestrian tracker using Kalman Filter that improved pedestrian detection using tracking information. I also worked on ego-motion compensation for the same since the camera feed was from a moving vehicle. The modified method increased detection speed using tracking data by reducing the search area for detection.