Neil Khera
Staff Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Khera is a Staff Engineer and robotics-focused avionics specialist with eight years of experience designing, building, and flying small satellites and planetary robots. At Carnegie Mellon he has led avionics for CubeSat, PocketQube, and experimental low-power Chipsat programs while mentoring students in spacecraft design and running cross-cultural hardware collaborations with partners in Portugal. His background blends hands-on PCB design, kernel-level work on embedded Jetson platforms, rapid prototyping, and low-latency autonomy algorithms developed in drone research. Comfortable across hardware, firmware, and systems software, he excels at turning constrained, space-qualified requirements into reliable flight systems. Notably, he pairs academic rigor from CMU’s MS in Robotics with practical field testing in lunar-analogue environments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Goa Board of Higher Secondary Education, Goa Board of Higher Secondary Education at Dempo Higher Secondary School of ScienceIndian Certificate of Secondary Education, Indian Certificate of Secondary Education at Sharada Mandir SchoolMaster of Science in Robotics (MSR) Robotics, Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (22)
minecraft9
unreal-engine-47
robotics7
unreal7
ros7
swarm6
satellite5
hardware5
kicad5
rover4
python4
openmv3
jekyll3
mavlink2
autopilot2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PyCubed-Mini/avionics-cameraboard
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
OpenMV based camera board for the PyCubed-Mini PocketQube platform
Contributions:5 releases, 29 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
openmv
cmu-argus-2/Avionics-Hardware
Sep 2024 - May 2026
Avionics hardware repository for the Argus CubeSat
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
hardware
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