Ashith Babu
Software Engineering Manager at Headlight AI
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAshith Babu is a Software Engineering Manager based in London with eight years of hands-on experience building robotics and machine learning systems across agri-tech, space, drones and autonomous vehicles. He combines academic rigor—a PhD from IISc in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation—with pragmatic product focus, having led motion planning, imitation learning and reinforcement-learning-driven control projects for real-world robot manipulators and mobile bases. As an engineering leader at Headlight AI and CEO of Xtent Ltd, he blends team leadership with entrepreneurial drive, shipping production-ready autonomy while still contributing to core algorithm development. His background includes minimizing spacecraft micro-vibrations and developing fruit-harvesting robots, showing a rare mix of high-precision space systems and field-deployable agricultural robotics. Known for a “get it done” attitude, he is comfortable moving between research prototypes and scalable engineering, often surfacing novel control strategies that accelerate deployment timelines.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Dynamics of rotors under flexible bearings, A, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Dynamics of rotors under flexible bearings, A at Indian Institute of Science+2, PCM, +2, PCM at Adarsha vidhya BhavanBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Analysis of Super Cavitational flow, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Analysis of Super Cavitational flow at College of Engineering, Trivandrum
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil
Github Skills (173)
python10
sdf10
depth-estimation10
robotics10
occupancy-grid-map10
rendering10
ignition10
camera10
depth-camera10
pure-python10
physics10
simulation10
gazebosim10
robot10
robot-simulator10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ashBabu/Utilities
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
Some important codes
Contributions:41 commits, 3 PRs, 78 pushes in 4 years
cppfurryzoneskeybaserealms
ashBabu/ashbabu.github.io
Feb 2022 - May 2024
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
responsive-jekyll-themeacademicscleanjekylljekyll-theme
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