ROBOTICS & AI ENGINEER

ARAVIND SAIRAM
SUBBURAM

I'm from Chennai, India, and these days I live in Warsaw, Poland. I write software for robots and drones for a living, which works out well because programming and building things is what I'd be doing anyway. Outside of work I fly drones, and I'm licensed to fly in both India and the EU. I play computer games and I'm a big God of War fan. I watch a lot of MMA and boxing.

I love cooking Indian food and trying food from different cultures, which is half the reason I like to travel. I'm curious about investing and economics too, though more about understanding how companies work than actually trading. I speak Tamil and English, a bit of French, and I just started learning Polish. Some days I get bored and just sit around doing nothing, and that's fine too.

$ ./deploy --target=field --status
> all systems nominal. cleared for takeoff.
MODE
AUTO
ALT
120m
SPD
14m/s
SATS
18
LINK
OK
SCROLL · LAT 52.2297 · LON 21.0122
/ 01PROFILE

I'm a robotics and AI engineer with 5+ years of experience building autonomy and perception systems, in the air and on the ground. Most of my work comes down to helping drones and robots understand what's around them and decide what to do next.

▲ ROBOTICSDOMAIN·01

Robotics & Autonomy

  • ROS 2 · PX4 · MAVSDK · Isaac ROS
  • SLAM/VIO · Sensor Fusion · GPS-Denied Navigation
  • Nav2 · MoveIt 2 · BehaviorTree.CPP · Lifecycle Nodes
  • PCL · Sensor Calibration
  • Isaac Sim & Gazebo Digital Twins
  • Embedded Systems · Linux
◷ LICENSED PILOT
DGCA Certified Drone Pilot
A1/A3 Remote Pilot
◆ AIDOMAIN·02

AI & Perception

  • PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · OpenCV
  • Convolutional & Recurrent Neural Networks · Transformers
  • Segmentation, Detection, Object Tracking
  • 6D Pose Estimation · Depth Estimation
  • Image Encoders · Vector Databases
  • LangChain · LangGraph · Langfuse · RAG
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Code I Live In

PythonC++ROS 2 PX4MAVSDKNav2 MoveIt 2Isaac SimGazebo PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learn OpenCVpandasPySpark PostgreSQLDockerCI/CD · GitHub Actions AWS · S3 · EC2 · Lambda · FargateCloudflare
/ 02TRAJECTORY

Five years in the field.

Senior Robotics Software Engineer
LUCID BOTS INC
APR 2024 → PRESENT
REMOTE
  • Built a digital twin of a custom omnidirectional robot in Isaac Sim and deployed a simulation regression stack on AWS EC2 for automated pre-field validation.
  • Tuned Isaac ROS Visual SLAM with stereo VIO and 2D-LiDAR localization for robust, embedded-ready navigation.
  • Shipped a natural-language robot control interface using LangChain/LangGraph with zero-shot perception (GroundingDINO + SAM).
  • Designed cleaning maneuvers for an automated cleaning drone with custom PX4 modes, and a Nav2 coverage planner for pressure-washing ground robots.
  • Built the mission state machine in BehaviorTree.CPP with lifecycle nodes and diagnostics for fault detection and recovery.
Software Developer
VERENIA
JUN 2023 → APR 2024
REMOTE
  • Developed control software for multicopter drones and differential-drive rovers using Python, ROS, PX4, and MAVSDK.
  • Partnered with hardware teams to configure, flash, and test custom PX4 firmware tuned to each vehicle's dynamics.
  • Implemented GPS-denied indoor navigation with visual-inertial odometry and depth sensing.
  • Built a Gazebo simulation environment to validate control and navigation before field deployment.
Robotic Software Developer
UNITED ROBOTS
JUL 2020 → MAY 2023
WARSAW, PL
  • Built a ROS diagnostics application in C++ to monitor system health and telemetry across robot platforms.
  • Implemented real-time point-cloud filtering for LiDAR and depth-camera streams using PCL.
  • Developed intrinsic and extrinsic calibration tooling for cameras, LiDAR, and ToF sensors with RANSAC and ICP.
  • Prototyped perception pipelines: YOLOv7 instance segmentation projected into 3D point clouds and 6D docking-target pose estimation with particle filtering.
Python Developer
AVANTARI MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
FEB 2018 → SEP 2018
HYDERABAD, IN
  • Built the preprocessing pipeline for a synthetic-media detection system using OpenCV and TensorFlow.
  • Ran EDA on multimedia datasets with pandas and Matplotlib to improve data quality and model iteration.
◇ EDUCATION
M.Sc. Computer Science
Warsaw University of Technology · 2021
B.E. Electronics & Communication
Anna University, Chennai · 2017
◇ CERTIFICATIONS
↳ TensorFlow Developer Specialization · DeepLearning.AI 2022
↳ Deep Learning Specialization · DeepLearning.AI 2022
◆ SELECTED PROJECTS
FPV Drone Build

Built a custom 5-inch FPV drone with an ExpressLRS control link and Walksnail digital video, tuning everything from motors and ESCs to PIDs by hand. I fly it for both cinematic and freestyle shots.

RAG Chatbot · Willeder Inc

A customer-support chatbot for a salon, built with OpenAI LLMs, LangChain, and Faiss over a curated knowledge base. Session memory with summarization keeps long multi-turn conversations coherent.

Speech Denoising · BabbleLabs (Cisco)

Designed and trained a U-Net speech-denoising model in PyTorch, from data preprocessing to training, and evaluated it with speech-quality metrics like SSNR and PESQ across datasets.

/ 03FIELD CAPTURE

Shot from above.

$ contact --open

Let's build
something that moves.

Open to robotics & autonomy work, drone cinematography, and a good conversation about control theory.