Dharini Dutia
Software Engineer at Intrinsic
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolDharini Dutia is a software engineer and roboticist with 8 years of experience building motion planning, optimization, and multi-robot systems, currently contributing to robotics software at Intrinsic. Her background blends academic research on multi-robot task allocation and decentralized coordination at the NEST Lab with production work at Open Robotics and Vecna Robotics, and she has hands-on embedded systems experience from industry roles. An active open-source contributor, she improved core message mapping and indexing in the widely used ros1_bridge to help ROS 1 and ROS 2 interoperate. Based in Sunnyvale, she leads community-building efforts for Women in Robotics while bringing a creative streak—painting, trekking, and a fascination with time travel and space—that informs her problem-solving approach.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, Indian Certificate of Secondary Education at Lalji Mehrotra Lions SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteCentral Board of Secondary Education, Central Board of Secondary Education at St. Kabir SchoolEngineer’s Degree, Engineer’s Degree at SIES Graduate School of Technology
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/ros1_bridge
May 2022 - Jun 2022
ROS 2 package that provides bidirectional communication between ROS 1 and ROS 2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dharini contributed to the `ros1_bridge` repository, focusing on message mapping and indexing functionalities, core components for bridging ROS 1 and ROS 2. Their work involved modifying the `__init__.py` file to include changes to message mapping rules, and fixing and updating the ROS 2 message index. The user also refined the code by removing an unused slot, demonstrating a focus on code quality and optimization within the ROS 2 package.
bidirectional-communicationroboticsros2communicationros-2
space-ros/simulation
Aug 2022 - Apr 2024
Simulation assets of space-ros demos
Contributions:10 reviews, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
roboticssimulationrosassetsspice
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