Achal Negi

Business Development Executive

Pune, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led global business development at FlytBase.
  • Pioneered autonomous drone solutions for diverse industries.
  • Award-winning participant in innovation contests.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in drone automation and robotics solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business DevelopmentDrone AutomationProduct DevelopmentRoboticsData AnalysisResearchProgrammingAerospace EngineeringImage ProcessingEmbedded Systems

Other Skills

ARMARM7AVRAdobe PhotoshopAeromodellingAlgorithmsApp DevelopmentArduinoAtmel AVRAutonomous SystemsBranding & IdentityBusiness StrategyCC++Computer Hardware

About

FlytBase is a Physical AI software platform that powers autonomous drones and robots globally. Our cloud, edge, and on-premise solutions enable drones and robots to operate 24/7 at oil refineries, solar farms, rail yards, and industrial sites—detecting threats, predicting failures, and keeping operations running. FlytBase intelligent platform helps orchestrate fleets of third-party drones & robots, correlating data from multiple sensors and systems, and using AI to predict problems before they happen. Fortune 500 companies & other large enterprises like CSX (Rail-roads), Anglo-American (Mining), Statnett (Utilities), Dole (Plantation), Asheville - North Carolina Police Department (Public Safety), Discovery Land (Real-estate), Xcel Energy (Solar) and multiple Oil & Gas companies are leveraging FlytBase globally to run autonomous operations on their industrial sites. We've deployed our software at 300+ sites globally and have the largest 50+ channel partner & drone system integrator network in the world. Our platform removes human operators from the equation, transforming off-the-shelf drones into intelligent agents that work with existing infrastructure. FlytBase has partnered with other leading enterprise solutions with ESRI, DJI, Genetec, Milestone, Pix4D, DroneDeploy, Strayos, and more to create a unified operational brain for physical sites. FlytBase is reimagining how the physical world is monitored and managed through software. *** Achal, a robotics geek turned business developer, has a decade of experience in the field of automated drone technology. He currently holds the position of Director of Business Development and is a key member of FlytBase’s leadership team. In this role, Achal oversees the company’s global business development, marketing, customer success, and product development initiatives. With extensive knowledge of drone automation software and enterprise application workflows, Achal has played a pivotal role in enabling organizations worldwide to leverage autonomous drones for diverse commercial applications, including security, public safety, and inspections. ***** Things I love talking about: ✔Drones and Docking Stations - Drone Autonomy ✔ AI ✔Product Marketing ✔Customer-focused Product Development ✔Business Strategy ✔Business Development ✔Customer Success ✔Digital Marketing ✔Growth Hacking ✔User experience ✔Branding

Experience

Flytbase

Director Of Business Development | Leadership Team

Feb 2016Present · 10 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • FlytBase provides drone agnostic software solutions to automate and scale drone operations. It is the world’s first Internet of Drones Platform (IoD), that allows easy deployment of intelligent drone fleets, connected with cloud-based business applications.
  • The commercial drone industry is moving towards fully autonomous BVLOS operations. These drone operations cannot be scaled without automation and connectivity. FlytBase leverages its IoD Platform to provide drone agnostic software solutions for Remote Drone Operations, Emergency Response, Automated Inspections, Security & Surveillance, Warehouse Management, Delivery, etc., integrated with automated Drone-in-a-box solutions.
  • FlytBase won the Global NTT Data Innovation Contest 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. FlytBase graduated from Cisco Launch Pad Accelerator Program in 2017 and was awarded the TiE50 Top-Startup award by TiE Silicon Valley.
Business DevelopmentDrone AutomationSoftware SolutionsProduct Development

Flytbase labs

Director of Business Development | Leadership Team

Feb 2016Present · 10 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India

  • Solving real-world problems one at a time. Building things that matter.
  • We are a technology startup working in the space of Autonomous Systems. We love to work with robots and strive to make them autonomous. We envision a world with connected things that can intuitively interact with us, as well as amongst themselves, and can perceive and act on their environment with a high degree of autonomy. We are currently focusing on the development of technologies to power next-generation intelligent autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Autonomous SystemsRoboticsProduct Development

Ericsson

Network Analyst

Aug 2015Jan 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Extract, parse and order the data from unordered raw data
  • for generating Key performance Index for the cellular networks.
Data AnalysisNetwork Performance

Robolution.me

Intelligence Designer

Jan 2015Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Designing robots and product with intelligent features.
  • Developed a Robotic Recreational Arena game - Combination of Laser tag and Harry Porter game play.
  • A stick toy and wearable sensors based outdoor playing game. Involved gesture recognition, voice recognition, Infrared communication, Bluetooth communication, Android app, Interactive LED lighting.Developed on 8-bit micro-controller platform using sensor fusion, speech processing hardware, Android phones and peripheral hardware.
Robotics DesignGame DevelopmentRobotics

Gade autonomous systems private limited

Research Intern

May 2014Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Microsoft Kinect app development using SimpleOpenNI Library
  • Developing image processing Clothing segmentation algorithms.
App DevelopmentImage Processing

Kiit robotics society

Head

Apr 2014May 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

  • To build upon key research strengths in the university and embark on new paths of discovery to identify socially responsible, innovative ,economical and environmentally sustainable solutions to important societal problems using technology. To prepare fellow students for national and international competitions to foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, team-working, communication, and leadership.
ResearchTeam Leadership

Kiit mars rover - kmr

Technical Head

Jan 2014May 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

  • Control Systems and Programming.
Control SystemsProgramming

Kenfest - kiit university technical fest

Coordinator

Jan 2014Feb 2014 · 1 mo · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

  • Kenfest is the technical festival of KIIT University. The students of this university have formed different societies to follow their interests in different technical fields.These societies have undertaken different projects. So it is only right that we hold a fest to showcase all that we can do and allow students from different colleges to participate in the events organized here. 'Ken' stands for knowledge possessed by a person.

Kiit aero

Vice-Captain

Oct 2013May 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

  • KIIT Aero is the official team of KIIT University which represents the University and India at International competition SAE Aero Design West held in USA. This year team participated at SAE Aero Design West 2014 held at Fort Worth, Texas, USA from 28th -30th March 2014.
  • The team presented two models:
  • An Advance Class Model, an efficient aircraft with large wingspan capable of accurately dropping a
  • three pound (3 lb) humanitarian aid package from a minimum of 100ft off the ground.
  • I especially work on On Screen Display components and sensors for the real-time data acquisition from the aircraft such as Airspeed, Altitude, GPS, Gyroscopic assistance and wireless video transmission (FPV) from the plane.
  • Micro Class Model, a light weight small-sized hence portable UAV capable of carrying
  • the highest payload fraction while simultaneously pursuing the lowest empty weight possible. I
  • work on the electronics and fabrication of the model.
  • Follow us on facebook : https://www.facebook.com/kiitaero
  • http://www.kiitaero.in/
Aerospace EngineeringElectronics

Thinklabs technosolutions pvt. ltd.

Trainee and Intern

Jun 2013Jun 2013 · 0 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Introduction to ARM 7TDMI Architecture
  • LPC2148 board and its feature
  • LCD interfacing
  • UART interfacing
  • Timer
  • External Interrupts
  • ADC
  • I2C and EEPROM slave IC

Niit limited

Trainee

Sep 2012Feb 2013 · 5 mos · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

  • For Core JAVA
Embedded SystemsMicrocontroller Programming

Roboyantra

Blogger

Aug 2011Aug 2015 · 4 yrs

  • http://roboyantra.wordpress.com/

Education

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Thakur College of Science & Commerce

Junior College

Jan 2008Jan 2010

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