Avinash Nair
Principal Engineer at Beacon AI
Mexico
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Top SchoolAvinash Nair is a Principal Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building machine vision, robotics, and automation systems across startups and high-growth companies. He co-founded and architected Beacon AI’s end-to-end Flight Safety and Efficiency Platform, driving prototypes that secured multimillion-dollar seed funding and key government contracts, and now leads its engineering efforts. His background includes multi-lidar fusion and automated ML testing at Cruise, high-precision 3D measurement systems at Soliton, and practical VIO and camera calibration work for autonomous robots—skills that bridge research-grade vision algorithms and production edge systems. Trained at Columbia with an MS focused on Vision and Robotics, he combines deep academic grounding with a track record of shipping safety-critical, avionics-adjacent products from Mexico. Notably, he has repeatedly taken projects from sensor-level integration to fleet-scale deployment, pairing low-level hardware expertise with cloud and mobile system design.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AmritapuriMaster’s Degree Computer Science - Vision and Robotics, Master’s Degree Computer Science - Vision and Robotics at Columbia UniversityHigh School Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Mathematics and Computer Science at Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Thrissur
English, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
keras9
computer-vision7
deep-learning7
url-connection6
html6
arraylist6
machine-learning6
ddl6
javascript6
tensorflow6
fileinputstream6
mysql6
java6
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
avinair/keras-cv
May 2023 - May 2023
Industry-strength Computer Vision workflows with Keras
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 14 days
avinair/spconv
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Spatial Sparse Convolution in PyTorch
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 days
pytorchsparse-convolutionspatialsparseconvolution
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