Hariharasudan Malaichamee
Engineering Manager, Platform Firmware
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHariharasudan Malaichamee is an engineering manager focused on platform firmware and hardware-adjacent embedded systems with 11 years of experience across robotics, controls, and localization. He has progressed from hands-on robotics and firmware engineering at companies like Barrett Technology, Rethink Robotics, and WaveSense to leadership roles at Symbotic and Axon, blending low-level systems design with team and program management. A Carnegie Mellon-trained mechatronics engineer and current MIT Catalyst Fellow based in Cambridge, he excels at turning complex sensing and control problems into production-ready firmware and software stacks. Colleagues know him for bridging research and product teams—shipping robust robotics solutions while mentoring engineers to navigate hardware-software integration. An uncommon thread in his career is repeated success transitioning prototype algorithms into reliable fielded systems in safety- and performance-critical environments.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Catalyst Fellow, Catalyst Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering at Thiagarajar College of EngineeringMaster's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (4)
canopen6
ros5
wrapper5
driver5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BarrettTechnology/libbarrett_ros
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
under-developmentrosdetailsstillros-wrapper
BarrettTechnology/proficio_toolbox
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 PRs, 28 pushes, 20 branches in 1 month
roboticsrobot
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