ManojĀ Velmurugan
Software Engineer at Applied Intuition
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolManoj Velmurugan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on bringing autonomous perception and hardware-accelerated vision to edge robots. Currently at Applied Intuition after internships at Zipline and research/teaching at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he blends hands-on embedded systems experience from MathWorks with advanced computer vision and robotics research. His background spans aerospace engineering from IIT Madras to an MS in Computer Vision & Robotics, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on perception, control, and constrained hardware. He excels at translating research prototypes into production-ready, low-latency vision pipelines for real-world robotic platforms. Known for working at the intersection of hardware acceleration and perception, he often tackles latency and resource constraints that are overlooked in cloud-centric ML work. Based in Worcester, MA, he brings practical embedded tooling experience alongside academic rigor to autonomous systems challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasMaster of Science Computer Vision Robotics, Master of Science Computer Vision Robotics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Tamil, English
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Github Skills (70)
ros10
robotics10
physics10
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robot-simulator10
robotics-simulation10
mujoco10
mavlink9
autopilot9
matlab9
simulator9
px49
python9
mechanics9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vmanoj1996/vmanoj1996.github.io
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
vmanoj1996/guidance_course_2018
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 26 days
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