A mechanical engineer with more than 20 years experience in industry and academics. Have worked in Tube Investments (Chennai) for 5 years as a machinery designer and after a short stint as a lecturer in an Engineering College, has been working as an independent electro – mechanical product design / technology consultant and since 2014 runs a deeptech company that provides problem solving to various domains ranging from manufacturing, automotive, aerospace and food processing with specific focus on quality inspection. Engineering / Product Design ● Consultancy on end – to – end product development ● Hands on experience in mechanical design of machines and devices from concept to prototype ● Expertise in complex mechanism design and analysis ● Knowledge of integration with electronic systems ● Development and prototyping using embedded controllers ● Robotic systems ● Architecting AI based Machine Vision systems Corporate Training / Talks A faculty trainer for various engineering colleges on topics like IOT, AI and product development Conducted seminars / workshops on topics like 3D printing, product design, IOT, Robotics, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for various technology companies Achievements Two patents filed with the Indian Patent Office. Patent application number: 2956/CHE/2010 – Automatic open end spanner Patent application number: 736/CHE/2011 – Quick fit assembly Programming / Software development Skills ● Developed algorithms in Python/C++ for computer vision applications ● Developed algorithms and utilities for visualizing 3D objects ● Developed utilities for touch screen based applications involving sensor data collection and UI updation Other contributions and interests ● Has designed and developed several products, machines and devices for various clients in India and abroad ● Served as the design consultant for a Robotics company in Japan as part of their mobile Robot development ● Interested in multidisciplinary areas like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. ● Developed a full scale Animatronics humanoid for entertainment industry ● Developed machine vision solutions for challenging product inspection applications