Salin 247 Inc.
35% lower tracking error
75% faster planning
2 days → 2 hrs onboarding
Robotics Software Engineer
Aug 2025 — Present · Full-time- Build the navigation and control stack for a production autonomous farming robot — path-tracking controllers (MPC, PID, Stanley), velocity profiling, and coordination logic tying planter operations to vehicle dynamics.
- Wrote the integration layer between the robot's industrial PLC and the ROS navigation stack over Modbus TCP, carrying bidirectional telemetry, motion commands, and safety interlocks.
- Contributed the graph-based mission planner that generates multi-row field paths with Dijkstra search and Reeds-Shepp curves.
- Containerized the ROS development environment with Docker for both Jetson (ARM64/CUDA) and x86 simulation, cutting new-developer onboarding from two days to two hours.
Robotics Engineer
Sep 2024 — May 2025 · Part-time- Prototyped a Model Predictive Controller to replace legacy PID, cutting cross-track and heading error 35% — the controller now runs in production.
- Led UI/UX for the consumer-facing web and mobile apps.
- Set project requirements and success metrics for external contractors, and ran technical interviews for computer-vision interns from CMU, Iowa State, and Georgia Tech.
Robotics Engineer — Intern
May 2024 — Aug 2024- Designed a full-stack path-planning architecture that cut computation time 75% for 150-acre field coverage, with a proprietary graph-generation algorithm and a Reeds-Shepp RRT* collision-avoidance module.
- Modeled a dual Ackermann steering system and built a Pygame emulator driven by a ROS remote controller.
- Prototyped bounding-box detection with YOLOv8 and helped train an object detector with Detectron2.