About
Engineer, researcher, community builder.
I am pursuing my M.Tech in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at VJTI Mumbai, working toward a PhD in robotics and control systems research. My work sits at the intersection of trajectory planning, embedded intelligence, and autonomous systems — I build and test real systems, not just study them.
I hold a black belt in martial arts. The discipline it demands — training under pressure, deliberate repetition, staying composed when the system fails — carries directly into how I approach engineering problems.
Outside of research, I organize and judge technical conferences and hackathons, mentor student programmers, and have served as a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador leading AI and digital literacy workshops across India. I am equally drawn to core engineering and to developer relations — I enjoy both building systems and communicating technical work to a community. Both feel like the same skill to me: making complex things land clearly.
I am open to roles in robotics research, embedded systems, and to DevRel or developer-community work where the audience is engineers.
Certifications
Google Project Management Professional Certificate
Advanced Data Analytics Certificate
Advanced CNNs, Transfer Learning & Recurrent Networks
Deep Learning Specialization
Research & Projects
Built, tested, and measured — from trajectory planning to tamper-proof AI.
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 distance — tighter curves shrink the lookahead radius, open paths extend it. 38-case automated test suite covering edge conditions.
91.9% tracking accuracy
primary metric
38 automated tests
secondary metric
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 for precise actuation. Designed and tested across 50 match conditions.
92% localization accuracy
primary metric
15 FPS on Pi
secondary metric
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. Designed for deployments where AI output integrity must be auditable.
Ed25519 signatures
primary metric
Merkle audit log
secondary metric
GRASP-X
Deep RL pick-and-place for KUKA IIWA7 — no manual state engineering.
PPO agent trained on raw 84x84 RGB frames with domain randomization across object textures, lighting, and initial positions. The policy generalizes to unseen configurations without any manual feature engineering.
80%+ pick success rate
primary metric
60%+ zero-shot generalization
secondary metric
More projects
Indian Sign Language Recognition
Real-time ISL gesture recognition using hand landmark detection and a CNN classifier.
16-bit Non-Restoring Division
Hardware implementation of a 16-bit integer divider using the non-restoring algorithm in FPGA.
PublicAI Pulse
Browser simulation exploring how AI governance parameters affect public service outcomes in real time.
AI Output Comparator
Side-by-side tool for comparing outputs from multiple AI models across identical prompts.
Sakura Lanterns
Digital sky lantern web app with animated visuals, themes, and shareable links.
ResilienceOps
Desktop app simulating incident-to-impact orchestration with real-time execution tracking.
Skills
Technical stack across robotics, ML, embedded systems, and software.
Robotics & Control
Computer Vision & ML
Embedded & IoT
Languages & Tools
Experience
Where I have worked and what I shipped.
Agora AI
Software Engineer
Jul 2025 — Mar 2026
- —Built and iterated React and TypeScript interfaces for AI dashboards, focusing on data-dense views for model output monitoring.
- —Developed backend data pipelines connecting AI model outputs to client applications — REST and streaming endpoints in Node.js.
- —Contributed to architectural decisions on how AI inference results are surfaced, cached, and audited across the platform.
Colgate Palmolive
Data & Content Intern
Apr 2024 — Jun 2024
- —Built analytics dashboards used by the digital team to track content performance across markets.
- —Designed data-driven content strategies that improved engagement metrics for regional campaigns.
Education
M.Tech, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
VJTI Mumbai
In progress
Research focus: robotics, trajectory planning, control systems.
B.E., Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
University of Mumbai
2021 — 2025
Graduated with honors. Coursework in embedded systems, digital design, and signal processing.
Leadership
Hackathons organized, communities built, developers mentored.
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.
Shraavani Tople · 2026