Manish N
Lead Engineer at John Deere India Pvt. Ltd. (JDTCI)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolManish N is a Lead Engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in autonomy, control systems, and real-world deployment of robotic platforms, currently driving SLAM, computer vision, and reinforcement-learning based navigation for autonomous agricultural machines at John Deere India. He combines deep control and embedded systems expertise from powertrain HiL work at Mercedes-Benz with research-grade modeling skills from his IIT Bombay aerospace dual degree, enabling robust plant modeling and production-ready perception stacks. His background spans HiL integration, CAN/LIN/FlexRay networks, and KPI-driven model validation, which helps bridge the gap between prototype algorithms and field-hardened systems. Notably, he has translated advanced RL and state-of-the-art CV techniques into practical, deployable solutions for unstructured farm environments, demonstrating a rare blend of theoretical rigor and hands-on engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Odia, German
Github Skills (1)
ros4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
manish-nayak/pybullet-stable-baselines
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:8 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
manish-nayak/ros_articubot_tutorial
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:14 pushes in 6 months
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