ROBOTICS & AI ENGINEER

ARAVIND SAIRAM
SUBBURAM

I build software that helps machines sense, think, and move. Robotics and AI are my craft, from autonomy and perception to intelligent agents but at heart I'm a coder and a builder, endlessly curious and always chasing whatever's next in tech.

$ ./deploy --target=field --status
> all systems nominal. cleared for takeoff.
MODE
AUTO
ALT
120m
SPD
14m/s
SATS
18
LINK
OK
SCROLL · LAT 52.2297 · LON 21.0122
/ 01PROFILE

Robotics & AI engineer with 5+ years building real-time autonomy and perception, in the air and on the ground. By day: ROS 2, PX4 & MAVSDK, SLAM/VIO, Isaac Sim, and ML-based perception. After hours: a hand-built FPV drone, chasing the light.

▲ ROBOTICSDOMAIN·01

Robotics & Autonomy

  • ROS 2 · PX4 · MAVSDK · custom modes
  • SLAM/VIO · Nav2 · Isaac ROS GEMs
  • Isaac Sim & Gazebo digital twins
  • BehaviorTrees.CPP · ROS 2 diagnostics
◷ LICENSED PILOT
DGCA Certified Drone Pilot
A1/A3 Remote Pilot
◆ AIDOMAIN·02

AI & Perception

  • PyTorch · TensorFlow · OpenCV
  • Perception: segmentation, detection, 6D pose
  • LLM agents: LangChain · LangGraph · RAG
  • Zero-shot vision: GroundingDINO + SAM
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Code I Live In

PythonC++ROS 2 PX4MAVSDKPyTorch TensorFlowOpenCVNav2 Isaac SimGazeboDocker GitHub ActionsAWSPostgreSQL Pandas
/ 02TRAJECTORY

Five years in the field.

Senior Robotics Software Engineer
LUCID BOTS INC
APR 2024 → PRESENT
REMOTE

Built Isaac Sim digital twins of a custom omnidirectional robot, tuned Isaac ROS Visual SLAM with stereo VIO + 2D-LiDAR localization, and shipped a LangChain/LangGraph natural-language control interface (GroundingDINO + SAM). Authored custom PX4 cleaning maneuvers and a BehaviorTrees.CPP mission state machine with lifecycle & diagnostics.

Software Developer
VERENIA
JUN 2023 → APR 2024
REMOTE

Wrote control software for multicopters and differential-drive rovers (Python · ROS · PX4 · MAVSDK), partnered with hardware teams on custom firmware tuning, and delivered GPS-denied indoor navigation with VIO + depth sensing, validated in Gazebo before field deployment.

Robotic Software Developer
UNITED ROBOTS
JUL 2020 → MAY 2023
WARSAW, PL

ROS diagnostics tooling in C++, real-time PCL point-cloud filtering for LiDAR & depth streams, and intrinsic/extrinsic sensor calibration (RANSAC/ICP). Prototyped perception pipelines: YOLOv7 instance segmentation projected into 3D, and 6D docking-target pose estimation via particle filtering.

Python Developer
AVANTARI MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
FEB 2018 → SEP 2018
HYDERABAD, IN

Built a preprocessing pipeline for a synthetic-media detection system (OpenCV · TensorFlow) and ran EDA on multimedia datasets to improve data quality and model-iteration efficiency.

◇ EDUCATION
M.Sc. Computer Science
Warsaw University of Technology · 2021
B.E. Electronics & Communication
Anna University, Chennai · 2017
↳ TensorFlow Developer Specialization · DeepLearning.AI 2022
↳ Deep Learning Specialization · DeepLearning.AI 2022
◆ SELECTED PROJECTS
FPV Drone Build

Custom 5″ build: ExpressLRS link, Walksnail digital video, hand-tuned ESC/motor/PID. EU A1/A3 certified; cinematic & freestyle.

RAG Chatbot · Willeder Inc

OpenAI LLMs + LangChain + FAISS over a salon knowledge base, with session-memory compaction for long multi-turn chats.

Speech Denoising · BabbleLabs (Cisco)

U-Net speech-denoising model in PyTorch, evaluated with SSNR / PESQ across datasets.

/ 03FIELD CAPTURE

Shot from above.

$ contact --open

Let's build
something that moves.

Open to robotics & autonomy work, drone cinematography, and a good conversation about control theory.