# Vishwajeet Karmarkar

> Robotics Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vishwajeetkarmarkar

Robotics engineer with experience delivering software in production. Controls | Motion planning | Calibration | Behavior trees | ROS2 | Embedded | REST. Currently exploring behavior cloning and RL

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Robotics @ Bright Machines
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer, Robotics @ Bright Machines
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States

### Software Engineer, Robotics @ Bright Machines
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Atlanta Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Behavior Tree & Robot health system

### Robotics Software Engineer @ KCL Robotics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boca Raton, Florida, United States
IMU-Camera sensor fusion, intrinsic & extrinsic calibration.
Wrote device drivers & firmware for Flir, Seek thermal.
Trajectory generator for a Kuka LBR Iiwa arm.

### Volunteer : Section Leader, Code in Place @ Stanford University: Code In Place
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Member of the teaching team for Code in Place. This online course was offered by Stanford University during the COVID-19 pandemic. It brought together 12,000 students and 1100 volunteer teachers participating from around the world. The course is a 6-week introduction to Python programming using materials from the first half of Stanford's CS106A course.

### Researcher - Assistive Robotics Lab @ Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Working on real-time door detection and localization using deep neural networks for an autonomous wheelchair platform

### Software Engineer @ Micelio - Electric Vehicles
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
Designed and deployed 15 Data Acquisition Systems (DAQ) for an
electric scooter fleet.

### Innovation Engineer @ Aparna Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Pune
Identified oppportunities and devloped technology to optimize operations for Unilever's largest distributor in west zone, India

### Co Founder @ 12C Composites
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Pune Area, India
Started a company that manufactured carbon-fiber composites; delivered 50+ parts for
products such as wind turbines, racecar bodyworks, and drones.


## Education
### Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering specializing in Robotics
Northwestern University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Savitribai Phule Pune University

### Nanodegree in C++
Udacity


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vishkar
- Website: https://vshkar.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01