SHRAAVANI
TOPLE
Engineering systems, communities, and intelligent experiences.
◆ About
Not just building software. Building worlds.
I'm Shraavani — a multidisciplinary engineer working at the intersection of robotics, AI, and human systems. From training KUKA arms to pick arbitrary objects, to organizing India's largest Ethereum hackathon, to mentoring the next generation of developers.
The Machine Mind
Robotics, ROS2, computer vision, and reinforcement learning. Building systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world.
The Network
Community ecosystems, developer relations, and human infrastructure. Building the scaffolding that enables other builders.
The Creator
Storytelling, content, events, and digital presence. Translating complex technical work into narratives that move people.
Started CS degree, first GitHub commit
StrikeBot — vision-guided marble robot at hackathon
GRASP-X deep RL research, IPMV/YOLO
Google Women Techmakers Ambassador
ETHMumbai Organizer + Hack The League
Snapchat Creator Event Speaker
Origin Navigation — ROS2 framework
GPF 2026 — Women in Product India
◆ Selected Work
Building at the edge of what's possible.
Robots that see, systems that learn, infrastructure that scales — click any card for details.
GRASP-X
Generalizable Robotic Skill Learning from Vision
PPO-based pick-and-place trained on a KUKA IIWA7 arm in PyBullet. End-to-end visual RL — policies process 84×84 RGB images. Domain randomization across color, mass, friction, and lighting. 80%+ training success, 60%+ zero-shot generalization on held-out objects.
Origin Navigation
Autonomous ROS2 Trajectory Tracking
Cubic spline interpolation + pure pursuit controller achieving C2 continuity. Validated in Gazebo with TurtleBot3. 91.9% tracking accuracy with 38 automated pytest tests.
StrikeBot
Vision-Guided Marble Playing Robot
Raspberry Pi + OpenCV system automating marble gameplay. Real-time detection pipeline: grayscale → Gaussian blur → adaptive thresholding → contour detection → centroid calc. ~1.38 m/s launch speed at ~176 RPM.
InferenceCache
Tamper-Proof AI Inference Proxy
Real-time AI inference proxy with Merkle audit log. Ed25519 digital signatures + SHA-256 cache keys. Wraps OpenAI with secure, cacheable API layer. Exportable logs with verifiable proofs.
PublicAI Pulse
AI Governance Simulator
Browser-based simulator exploring how AI governance affects public service outcomes. Interactive sliders controlling transparency and bias parameters. Real-time impact simulation on healthcare and transit systems.
ResilienceOps
Incident to Impact Orchestrator
Electron + React + Tailwind desktop app for incident management. API spec change tracking, fix plan automation, and execution monitoring. Demo UI for DevOps orchestration workflows.
◆ Research & Robotics
Teaching machines to see, think, and act.
GRASP-X
Origin Navigation
MedSegTumor
Deep learning for medical image segmentation. Tumor detection and boundary delineation using convolutional architectures.
IPMV / YOLO
Object detection implementation using YOLO architecture. Real-time multi-class detection with confidence scoring.
Hand Gesture Recognition
Computer vision system for real-time hand gesture classification using contour analysis and feature extraction.
◆ Community & Ecosystems
Ecosystems don't build themselves.
From Google Women Techmakers to ETHMumbai — building the scaffolding that enables other builders to build. Hover nodes to explore.
Women Techmakers Ambassador — empowering women in tech across India
Organized India's premier Ethereum hackathon bringing together Web3 builders
Co-organizer of Hack The League — premier student hackathon
Mentoring developers on the Salesforce Trailblazer community platform
Google Developer Groups volunteer — growing local dev ecosystems
Mentoring beginners in Python programming and software fundamentals
Evaluating technical projects and innovations at hackathon competitions
Speaker at Snapchat Creator Event — tech storytelling and content creation
◆ Creator & Internet Presence
Stories that move people.
Building in public means documenting the journey — the hackathon sprints, the robotics failures, the community wins. Content that bridges the gap between technical depth and human story.
From Snapchat Creator Events to tech reels that make complex robotics understandable — the creator side of being a builder.
On the intersection of tech and creator culture — where building meets storytelling.
◆ Journey
Every milestone, a new world unlocked.
Engineering Journey Begins
First GitHub commit. Started computer science degree. Fell in love with building.
StrikeBot — Hackathon Win
Built a vision-guided marble-playing robot using Raspberry Pi and OpenCV. Real-time detection pipeline at 1.38 m/s.
Deep Learning Research Sprint
IPMV/YOLO object detection, MedSegTumor medical segmentation, Hand Gesture Recognition — shipped three research projects.
Google Women Techmakers Ambassador
Selected as a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador. DataStructureBooks hits 17 stars.
InferenceCache — Tamper-Proof AI
Built a real-time AI inference proxy with Ed25519 signatures and Merkle trees. Cryptographically secure AI logging.
ETHMumbai & Hack The League
Organized ETHMumbai, India's premier Ethereum hackathon. Co-organized Hack The League for student innovators.
Snapchat Creator Event Speaker
Spoke at Snapchat Creator Event on tech storytelling and creator-developer intersection.
GRASP-X — Deep RL Robotics
Trained KUKA IIWA7 arm via PPO to pick and place arbitrary objects. 80%+ success rate, 60%+ zero-shot generalization over 2M training steps.
Origin Navigation — ROS2
Autonomous trajectory tracking framework with cubic spline interpolation + pure pursuit. 91.9% accuracy, 38 automated tests.
GPF 2026 — Women in Product India
Built the Great Product Festival 2026 conference website. Women in Product India initiative with React + Vite.
Deep RL pick-and-place for KUKA IIWA7 arm
Vision-guided autonomous marble robot
Tamper-proof AI inference proxy with Merkle log
AI governance simulator — live demo
DSA resource — 17 stars
Real-time hand gesture classifier
◆ Thoughts
Writing at the intersection.
Robotics, community, AI governance — perspectives from building at the edges.
◆ Let's Build
Have an idea that
needs a builder?
Whether it's a robotics project, AI system, community initiative, or a problem that doesn't have a name yet — let's talk.