• Architected and deployed production-grade drone simulation environments, enabling safe testing, rapid development, and high-stakes demonstrations for defense and public-sector customers while reducing reliance on physical hardware and lowering operational risk.

• Led end-to-end drone provisioning and deployment readiness, including automation workflows, standardized documentation, and internal training, eliminating single-point dependencies and improving operational consistency at scale.

• Technical owner for ATAK system integrations with autonomous drones, supporting defense and security customers through system upgrades, field deployments, and multi-drone control from a single operator interface.

• Delivered sustained, high-priority technical support for mission-critical operations across defense, law-enforcement, and energy customers, including direct technical coordination, training, and live operational support.

• Designed and implemented a structured customer-support and on-call model, improving response efficiency, workload fairness, and team scalability while enabling engineers to independently own defense and security customer accounts.

• Enabled team scalability through mentoring, documentation, and knowledge transfer, serving as a trusted escalation point during critical operational incidents.

• Contributed to hiring and team growth through resume screening, interview planning, and technical evaluations.

• >Developed simulations of robots in Gazebo using AWS EC2 instances for real-world applications.

• >Imported robot STL models into simulation, enabling dynamic parameter changes to modify robot functionality.

• >Led the planning and implementation of a new pallet pick-and-place feature for a project.

• >Delivered presentations to executives, effectively communicating project progress and feature implementation details.

• >Acted as a point of contact and triage person for the team, addressing issues from other teams and stakeholders promptly and creating tickets for further team attention.

• >Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges, ensuring seamless project execution and delivery.

• >Successfully verified and executed build instructions and tutorials for ROS/Gazebo (garden release), demonstrating a deep understanding of Gazebo package architecture.

• >Implemented bug fixes in Gazebo rendering packages specifically addressing lens flare issues originating from wide-angle camera, as a part of the NASA VIPER team.

• >Conducted thorough code reviews and comprehensive testing of contributions from individual open-source contributors to gazebosim, ensuring code quality and reliability.

• Working on automated mobile robots for warehouse automation.

• Development and deployment of pick/place algorithms.

• Working in a test driven environment while collaborating with the test team to validate algorithms.

• Implementing features for improving pick/place ability by programming, unit testing, debugging and troubleshooting.

• Developed various behaviors in the mobile robot, which involved the use of LIDAR data, digital IO and robot motion to provide feedback to bystanders about the robot's intention.

• Implemented motion planning algorithms to extend the capabilities of the robot.

• Expanded the robot's programming environment functionality, including the contribution of new elements to the Graphical User Interface.

• Took part in the assembly of mobile robots.

• Integrated machine vision hardware and software that leveraged deep learning and enabled live Natural Interaction-type control of the robot based on video input.