Manu Priyadharshini
Controls Engineer at Tesla
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolManu Priyadharshini is a controls engineer with eight years of hands-on experience blending mechatronics, robotics, and embedded systems across industry and academia. Currently at Tesla in Austin, they bring practical expertise in automation, cell manufacturing, and control systems validated by prior roles at Harmonic Bionics, Nymble, and research appointments at the University of Michigan and IISc. Their background spans simulation, micro-ROS development, and embedded firmware—reflecting a comfort moving between low-level hardware constraints and higher-level control algorithms. A high-achieving technical student from NIT Tiruchirappalli and a Rackham graduate student in mechatronics, Manu pairs strong academic rigor with rapid prototyping experience. Colleagues describe them as driven by a genuine love of physics, and they quietly favor pragmatic, well-tested engineering over flashy claims. Based in Austin, they excel at translating research insights into production-ready control solutions for complex electromechanical systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolHigher secondary schooling Biology stream, Higher secondary schooling Biology stream at G D Naidu Matriculation SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, 9.41/10, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, 9.41/10 at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
English, Tamil, Malayalam, German, Hindi
Github Skills (47)
bluetooth10
hardware9
embedded9
arduino-ide8
arduino8
scalable8
git-repository8
iot8
mpc8
zephyr8
bluetooth-le8
ide8
freertos8
microcontroller8
infiniband8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
manuaatitya/manuaatitya
Aug 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:655 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
manuaatitya/manuaatitya.github.io
May 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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