Neel Parikh
Engineering Manager at Shield AI
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeel Parikh is an engineering manager and autonomy software specialist with nine years of experience building behavior, motion planning, and motion control systems for SAE Level 4 vehicles. He has progressed through hands-on roles at TORC Robotics—from engineer to staff autonomy software engineer and product owner—now leading teams at Shield AI out of San Diego. Neel’s core strengths include lane changes, merges, shoulder pulls, and emergency-vehicle responses, implemented with C++, ROS, Python, OpenCV, and solid systems engineering practices. He pairs technical depth in path-planning and perception with a talent for mentoring cross-functional teams and wearing product, tech-lead, and management hats simultaneously. Early research work on a ROS-based, DNN-powered tracking robot demonstrates his longstanding blend of perception, embedded systems, and practical deployment experience. Quietly, he brings real-world robotics commissioning experience from KUKA that informs robust, production-ready autonomy software design.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at G. H. Patel college of Engineering and TechnologyMaster’s Degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master’s Degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at University of Maryland
English, Hindi, German
Github Skills (11)
camera-api10
computer-vision10
sdk10
intel10
realsense10
hardware10
in-app-purchase10
payment-methods10
pid1
controller1
pid-controller1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
raviBhadeshiya/robotic_perception
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 9 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
nr-parikh/rosserial_tutorials
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
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