Shraavani

Tople.

Robotics engineer. I build autonomous systems and care about how they work in the real world.

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ROS2Pure PursuitTrajectory PlanningOpenCVEmbedded SystemsMATLABPyTorchTurtleBot3GazeboC++Raspberry PiInverse KinematicsFPGAROS2Pure PursuitTrajectory PlanningOpenCVEmbedded SystemsMATLABPyTorchTurtleBot3GazeboC++Raspberry PiInverse KinematicsFPGA
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About

A bit about who I am.

I am doing my M.Tech in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at VJTI Mumbai. My research is in trajectory planning, control systems, and autonomous robots. I like building things that actually move and respond to the real world, not just simulations.

I also hold a black belt in martial arts. It taught me something that engineering keeps confirming: you get better by doing the same hard thing repeatedly until it stops being hard. That mindset shows up in how I debug, how I test, and how I handle a system that keeps failing.

Outside the lab, I organize hackathons, judge student competitions, and run developer workshops. I spent time as a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador running AI and digital literacy programs across India. I genuinely enjoy talking to people about technical work, not just doing it quietly.

I am looking for roles in robotics research and embedded systems. I am also open to developer relations work where the audience is engineers.

Certifications

Google Project Management Professional Certificate

Google

Advanced Data Analytics Certificate

Google

Advanced CNNs, Transfer Learning & Recurrent Networks

Deep Learning Specialization

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Research & Projects

Built, tested, and measured.

Robotics / Control

Origin Navigation

ROS2 framework for autonomous trajectory tracking with C2-continuous splines and adaptive lookahead.

Cubic spline interpolation enforcing C2 continuity across waypoints. Pure Pursuit controller with curvature-adaptive lookahead — tighter curves shrink the lookahead radius, open paths extend it. 38-case automated test suite.

91.9%

tracking accuracy

38

automated tests

ROS2C++GazeboTurtleBot3Pure PursuitCubic Splines
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Robotics / Control

Robotics / Computer Vision

StrikeBot

Autonomous marble-playing robot combining real-time vision with inverse kinematics actuation.

Raspberry Pi running a live OpenCV detection pipeline — object localization, tracking, and targeting at 15 FPS. Inverse kinematics drives the mechanical arm. Designed and tested across 50 match conditions.

92%

localization accuracy

15 FPS

on Raspberry Pi

PythonC++OpenCVRaspberry PiInverse Kinematics
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AI / Security

InferenceCache

Tamper-proof AI inference proxy with cryptographic audit trails.

Secure proxy layer that intercepts model outputs, signs them with Ed25519, and commits them to a Merkle tree. Subsequent queries validate against the tree root — any tampering is detectable.

Ed25519

signature scheme

Merkle

audit log

PythonFastAPISHA-256Merkle TreesCryptography
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AI / Security

Robotics / Deep RL

GRASP-X

Deep RL pick-and-place for KUKA IIWA7 — no manual state engineering.

PPO agent trained on raw 84×84 RGB frames with domain randomization across object textures, lighting, and initial positions. Policy generalizes to unseen configurations without manual feature engineering.

80%+

pick success rate

60%+

zero-shot generalization

PyTorchPPOPyBulletPythonDeep RL
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More projects

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Indian Sign Language Recognition

Real-time ISL gesture recognition using hand landmark detection and a CNN classifier.

OpenCVTensorFlowMediaPipe

02

16-bit Non-Restoring Division

Hardware implementation of a 16-bit integer divider using the non-restoring algorithm on FPGA.

VHDLFPGADigital Design

03

PublicAI Pulse

Browser simulation exploring how AI governance parameters affect public service outcomes in real time.

JavaScriptHTMLCSS

04

AI Output Comparator

Side-by-side tool for comparing outputs from multiple AI models across identical prompts.

ReactTypeScript

05

Sakura Lanterns

Digital sky lantern web app with animated visuals, themes, and shareable links.

ReactJavaScriptTailwind

06

ResilienceOps

Desktop app simulating incident-to-impact orchestration with real-time execution tracking.

ElectronReactTypeScript
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Skills

Tools I actually use.

ROB

Robotics & Control

ROS2GazeboTurtleBot3Trajectory PlanningPure PursuitCubic SplinesInverse KinematicsMATLAB
CV

Computer Vision & ML

OpenCVTensorFlowKerasPyTorchCNNsTransfer LearningMediaPipeObject Detection
EMB

Embedded & IoT

Raspberry PiArduinoFPGAEmbedded CGPIOI2C / SPIReal-Time Systems
SW

Languages & Tools

PythonC++TypeScriptReactFastAPINode.jsPytestGitDocker
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Experience

Where I have worked and what I built.

Agora AI

Software Engineer

Jul 2025 – Sep 2026

  • Built React and TypeScript dashboards for monitoring AI model outputs, focused on making dense data actually readable.
  • Wrote backend pipelines in Node.js to connect model inference to client apps via REST and streaming endpoints.
  • Contributed to decisions on how inference results get cached, surfaced, and audited across the platform.
ReactTypeScriptNode.jsAI DashboardsData Pipelines

Colgate Palmolive

Data & Content Intern

Apr 2024 – Jun 2024

  • Built analytics dashboards the digital team used to track content performance across regional markets.
  • Helped shape content strategies backed by data, which improved engagement on regional campaigns.
Data AnalyticsDashboardsContent Strategy

Education

M.Tech, Electronics & Telecommunication

VJTI Mumbai

In progress

Research in robotics, trajectory planning, and control systems.

B.E., Electronics & Telecommunication

University of Mumbai

2021 – 2025

Graduated with honors. Embedded systems, digital design, signal processing.

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Leadership

Things I have done outside the lab.

Women in Tech Mumbai

Speaker

Women in Tech Mumbai

Faculty Training Session

Workshop Lead

Faculty Training Session

ETHMumbai Hackathon

Organizer

ETHMumbai Hackathon

Python Bootcamp

Mentor

Python Bootcamp

Hackathon Judge

ThinkAI

Assessed student AI projects and delivered structured feedback.

WTM Ambassador

Google

Led AI and digital literacy workshops across India.

Hackathon Organizer

ETHMumbai

Built and ran India's large-scale Ethereum developer conference.

Hackathon Organizer

Hack The League 3

End-to-end organization of a multi-track developer hackathon.

Faculty Trainer

Atlas SkillTech University

Delivered AI and design thinking training for faculty staff.

Python Mentor

Symbiosis International University

Ran programming bootcamps for early-stage developers.

Community Volunteer

Google Developer Groups

Event support and community building for GDG Mumbai.

Black Belt

Martial Arts

Discipline, precision under pressure, and composure in failure.

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Let's build
something.

Whether it is a robotics research collaboration, an embedded systems project, or a developer-relations conversation — I am interested in both. Reach out.

shraavanitople@gmail.com

Shraavani Tople · 2026