Pradeep Rajendran
Staff Software Engineer at Path Robotics
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPradeep Rajendran is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building motion- and task-planning systems for robotic assembly and autonomous vehicles, currently driving robot engineering at Path Robotics. He brings a rare blend of academic rigor—a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from USC and postdoctoral research—and hands-on production experience shipping ROS-based C++, Python, and C# systems in uncertainty-rich environments. At Divergent he architected motion planning for a 3D-printed car assembly cell, owning integrated task/motion planners, web interfaces, and cross-functional productization. Comfortable across optimization, dynamics, control, and ML, he pairs research-led literature synthesis with practical delivery using Docker, Git, and testing frameworks. Known for translating complex robotics requirements into usable tooling, he also develops interactive in-house software to bridge engineers and stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (39)
robotics10
animation10
null-safety10
trajectory-generation10
astar10
robot10
localization10
moveit10
pybullet10
planning10
autonomous-robots10
motion-planning10
slam10
autonomous-driving10
gazebosim9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pradeepr-roboticist/UR5Robot-MEX-Matlab
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Matlab classes for computing forward kinematics and inverse kinematics of a UR5 robot along with a class for visualizing it
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 months
inverse-kinematicsroboticskinematicsmatlabforward-kinematics
pradeepunique1989/dotfiles
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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