# Prajankya Sonar

> Staff Robotics Software Engineer / Manager | Ambi Robotics

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/prajankya

Generalist Robotics Software Engineer

My broad fields of interest include :
- Motion Planning
- Computer Vision
- Human-Robot Interaction (UI/UX)
- Swarm Robotics
- Robot Navigation

My technical skillset includes :
- Programming : C++ ,  Python, C, Nodejs/Javascript, Golang 
- Software: ROS, Gazebo, OpenCV
- Cloud:​ Kubernetes, Docker, AWS: EC2, lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, Cloudfront, Git, CI/CD, Unit testing
- Full-stack web development:​ Nodejs, MongoDB, GraphQL, M.E.A.N, M.E.R.N.
- Embedded Electronics:​ ARM -STM32, Renesas, NVidia Jetson, Microcontrollers, PCB-Eagle, Altium designer

Check out my Personal Website at https://prajankya.me/

Excited to solve real-world problems in the field of Robotics.

## Work Experience
### Staff Robotics Software Engineer / Manager @ Ambi Robotics
Jan 2024 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States
- Lead the design and development of Robotics Software for existing and upcoming products at Ambi.
- Lead and manage the Robotics software team

### Robotics Software Engineering Lead @ Ambi Robotics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Manage Robotics software engineering team and defining, managing, implementing and deploying robotics software across the company.
• Work on major pieces of robotics software codebase in designing and implementing and inter team projects involving cloud, analytics, frontend, machine learning, etc.

### Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ Ambi Robotics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Architect, develop and test parts of Robotics software going out in production
• Work with other robotics software engineers to keep the robots in production up and running 24x7.
• Guide junior robotics software engineers to their project completions.

### Robotics Software Engineer, Runtime Systems @ Ambi Robotics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | California, United States
• Optimize and improve stability of core robotics software.
• Develop the runtime application running on the robots.
• Design and Implement cloud infrastructure to record data generated by robots to help debug/support remotely.

### Software Engineering Intern @ SparkCharge
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Designed and Pre-production testing and internal tools development in software and embedded electronics. 
- Maintained AWS Cloud (Lambda, EKS), Unit testing, CI/CD (Travis CI, github hooks CD). 
- Developed embedded Touchscreen devices based on STM32 (ARM) & Renesas S5D3(ARM) for internal diagnostics.

### Robotics Software Engineer @ RIG.solutions
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Managed an engineering team of 30 engineers, 5 Team leads- direct reporters.
- Provide custom services and products on:
  - Warehouse robots (AGVs)
  - Multi-robot and decentralized/distributed control systems using SLAM, 2D/3D vision, and graphics, manipulation, navigation.
   - Developed custom Robotics and software solutions like welding robotics, Gantry trains,Industrial automation, etc.

### Research Assistant @ K.L.E. Technological University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Hubli Area, India
Leading the team in designing and development for a Research Humanoid Robot platform, handling teams for robotics competitions like ABU ROBOcon, and many other research projects.

### Robotics Software Engineer @ RIG.solutions
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hubli Area, India
Working on various Products and services based on Robotics, web, and mobile technologies.

### Robotics Research Intern @ RIG.solutions
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hubli Area, India
Worked on PCL and 3D graphics, CV and CG


## Education
### Master's degree in Robotics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

### Bachelor's Degree in Automation and Robotics Engineering
B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prajankya
- Website: https://prajankya.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-01