Hemanth Katikala Muniraj

About

Robotics software engineer focused on production-grade autonomous mobile robot (AMR) navigation in warehouse-style environments, with deep hands-on ROS2/ROS Noetic experience across SLAM, AMCL/NDT LiDAR localization, and Nav2 integration. Strong in real-time debugging and performance tuning using rosbag-driven regression workflows, plus containerized deployment (Docker/Compose) and distributed robot/edge-device communication via MQTT/REST.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• End-to-end AMR navigation stack integration (mapping, localization, Nav2 planning/control) for warehouse environments
• System-level reliability focus with production-style architecture and debuggability
• Methodical real-time debugging using rosbag replay to reproduce issues and isolate root causes
• Performance tuning of localization pipelines (voxel filtering, parameter tuning) to reduce latency while maintaining accuracy
• Multi-robot ROS2 setup experience (namespaces, remapping, TF/launch configuration)
• Cross-functional hardware/software integration to ensure platform and autonomy stack work seamlessly
• Reproducible deployment practices via Docker/Docker Compose and build validation exposure with GitHub Actions

Reference Highlights

• Impressive technical abilities
• Meticulous work
• Strong team lead
• Reliable
• Detail-oriented
• Practical
• Takes ownership
• Tenacious debugger
• Strong analytical/diagnostic ability
• Improved system uptime
• Stabilized vision-guided manipulation to meet goals on time
• Improved reliability and reduced downtime
• Improved performance by reducing position errors and cycle inconsistencies
• Ensured complex connected systems worked reliably together
• Identifies and fixes issues when something goes wrong
• Not shy about asking for assistance when needed
• Strong contributor to the automation team
• Work enabled program expansion
• Trained and oversaw team workflow