I am currently working at Hello Robot Inc., a startup whose first product is a robot called Stretch. Stretch is a compact, lightweight, and force-sensitive mobile manipulator that is well suited to working in homes and workplaces. I wear many hats at Hello Robot, but I primarily drive development of Stretch’s software stack. Feel free to peruse my work Github account, @hello-binit, since nearly all of our software packages are open source. Previously, I was a BS-MS student at Georgia Tech where I contributed to research on robotic art, task planning and recovery, and acted as a teaching assistant for CS3630, the intro robotics course at Georgia Tech.

Education

• M.S. in Computer Science, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-2021
• B.S. in Computer Science, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-2020

Work Experience

• Software Lead, Hello Robot Inc, May 2021 - Current
  • Driving software development, supporting customers and partner projects, and mentoring a few interns.
• Software Intern, Hello Robot Inc, May 2020 - May 2021
  • Developed ROS drivers for the Stretch RE1, a novel mobile manipulator.
• Robotics Software Development Intern, Amazon Robotics, May 2019 - August 2019
  • Prototyped a Human Robot Interaction (HRI) device using computer vision techniques and ROS for safe collaboration on the warehouse floor.
• Robotics Research Intern, Georgia Tech Research Institute, January 2019 - May 2019
  • Created a robot cell planning framework that allows robotic arms to autonomously calibrate and perform precise manipulation in a lab setting.