ROBOTICS & AI ENGINEER

ARAVIND SAIRAM
SUBBURAM

I'm from Chennai, India, and these days I live in Warsaw, Poland. I write software for robots and drones for a living, which works out well because programming and building things is what I'd be doing anyway. Outside of work I fly drones, and I'm licensed to fly in both India and the EU. I play computer games and I'm a big God of War fan. I watch a lot of MMA and boxing.

I love cooking Indian food and trying food from different cultures, which is half the reason I like to travel. I'm curious about investing and economics too, though more about understanding how companies work than actually trading. I speak Tamil and English, a bit of French, and I just started learning Polish. Some days I get bored and just sit around doing nothing, and that's fine too.

$ ./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

I'm a robotics and AI engineer with 5+ years of experience building autonomy and perception systems, in the air and on the ground. Most of my work comes down to helping drones and robots understand what's around them and decide what to do next.

▲ ROBOTICSDOMAIN·01

Robotics & Autonomy

  • ROS 2 · PX4 · MAVSDK · Isaac ROS
  • SLAM/VIO · Sensor Fusion · GPS-Denied Navigation
  • Nav2 · MoveIt 2 · BehaviorTree.CPP · Lifecycle Nodes
  • PCL · Sensor Calibration
  • Isaac Sim & Gazebo Digital Twins
  • Embedded Systems · Linux
◷ LICENSED PILOT
DGCA Certified Drone Pilot
A1/A3 Remote Pilot
◆ AIDOMAIN·02

AI & Perception

  • PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · OpenCV
  • Convolutional & Recurrent Neural Networks · Transformers
  • Segmentation, Detection, Object Tracking
  • 6D Pose Estimation · Depth Estimation
  • Image Encoders · Vector Databases
  • LangChain · LangGraph · Langfuse · RAG
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Code I Live In

PythonC++ROS 2 PX4MAVSDKNav2 MoveIt 2Isaac SimGazebo PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learn OpenCVpandasPySpark PostgreSQLDockerCI/CD · GitHub Actions AWS · S3 · EC2 · Lambda · FargateCloudflare
/ 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 BehaviorTree.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
◇ CERTIFICATIONS
↳ 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.