Nitish RavsankarRaveendran

Vadivelan Murugesan

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Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in ROS 2, perception, and motion planning

New York City, NY2y exp

“Robotics software engineer/researcher (master’s work) who built a human-aware motion planning stack for a UR16/UR16e arm: RGB-D 3D skeleton perception in ROS2, deep-learning-based human motion prediction, and MoveIt2-integrated real-time planning with a Gazebo digital twin. Demonstrated strong real-time optimization (profiling + GPU offload with CuPy/TensorRT) and practical systems skills spanning safety validation, visualization, and low-level comms (CAN/SocketCAN) on embedded deployments (Jetson, Docker, Autoware/Ouster).”

“Full-stack product engineer who has owned complex internal platforms end-to-end, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Flask/Redis backend systems, and relational data design. Particularly strong at turning technically dense workflows into intuitive user experiences, including a synthetic-imagery platform adopted by multiple Army research labs and a marketing analytics system with 99.99%+ uptime.”

“Robotics/ML engineer who benchmarks and adapts open-source robot action models, building synthetic datasets in Isaac Sim and modifying vendor code to scale training across multiple GPUs. Also built a production-style computer vision pipeline at Zortag—training a tiny YOLO-based classifier for fake-vs-real label detection and deploying it in a real-time iOS app with additional display/spoof detection.”

“CMU robotics PhD/PhD researcher and former CMU Robotics Club project lead who built a novel Bayes-filter-based system to localize within music so robotic instruments can follow a human’s tempo in real time. Also works on simulation-heavy multi-agent vehicle routing with traffic-signal scheduling, optimizing for real-time performance via profiling, multithreading, and neural-network surrogates for signal control.”