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Prajankya
Sonar

Robotics Software Engineer and Engineering Manager with 10+ years spanning embedded systems, SLAM, motion planning, and distributed robot infrastructure. Has led engineering teams of 30+ engineers and built products from prototype to production — AGVs, surgical robots, mobile manipulation. Startups, research labs, and scale-ups: RIG.solutions, WPI, Ambi Robotics. C++, Python, Go, JavaScript — polyglot across the full stack.

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Work History

Ambi Robotics

Berkeley, California, United States

Staff Robotics Software Engineer / Manager 2024-11 — Present
  • Lead design and development of robotics software for existing and upcoming products.
  • Lead and manage the robotics software team.
Robotics Software Engineering Lead 2022-07 — 2024-11
  • Managed robotics software engineering team; defined, managed, implemented, and deployed robotics software across the company.
  • Worked on major robotics software subsystems and cross-team projects spanning cloud, analytics, frontend, and machine learning.
Senior Robotics Software Engineer 2022-01 — 2022-06
  • Architected, developed, and tested robotics software going to production.
  • Kept robots in production running 24x7; guided junior engineers to project completion.
Robotics Software Engineer, Runtime Systems 2021-05 — 2021-12
  • Optimized and improved stability of core robotics software.
  • Developed the runtime application running on robots.
  • Designed cloud infrastructure to record robot-generated data for remote debug and support.

SparkCharge

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Software Engineering Intern 2020-06 — 2020-12
  • Designed and pre-production tested internal tools across software and embedded electronics.
  • Maintained AWS Cloud (Lambda, EKS), unit testing, and CI/CD (Travis CI, GitHub hooks).
  • Developed embedded touchscreen devices based on STM32 (ARM) and Renesas S5D3 (ARM).

RIG.solutions

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Robotics Software Engineer 2018-01 — 2019-07
  • Managed an engineering team of 30 engineers with 5 team leads as direct reports.
  • Built warehouse AGVs and multi-robot decentralized control systems using SLAM, 2D/3D vision, and navigation.
  • Delivered custom robotics solutions: welding robots, gantry trains, industrial automation.

K.L.E. Technological University

Hubli, Karnataka, India

Research Assistant 2017-06 — 2017-12
  • Led design and development of a research humanoid robot platform.
  • Handled teams for robotics competitions including ABU ROBOcon.

RIG.solutions

Hubli, Karnataka, India

Robotics Software Engineer 2015-01 — 2015-05
  • Built products and services spanning robotics, web, and mobile technologies.
Robotics Research Intern 2014-05 — 2014-12
  • Worked on PCL and 3D graphics, computer vision, and computer graphics.

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Technical Skills

Robotics & Control

ROS Gazebo SLAM Motion Planning Computer Vision OpenCV Human-Robot Interaction

Programming Languages

C++ Python C Go JavaScript / Node.js

Web & DevOps

Kubernetes Docker AWS (EC2, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront) MongoDB GraphQL CI/CD

Hardware & Electronics

ARM STM32 Renesas NVIDIA Jetson PCB Design (Eagle, Altium) Microcontrollers

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Education

Master of Science, Robotics · Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
2019 — 2021
Bachelor of Engineering, Automation and Robotics Engineering · B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology (BVBCET) Hubli, Karnataka, India
2013 — 2017

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Publications

  1. 01. Loss of Information in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Remote Interaction
  2. 02. Human Communication and Transparency in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Remote Interaction
  3. 03. Feasibility of using Cost Effective LIDAR for Precision Horticulture

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Patents

  • Single Handed Soldering Pen