Prajwal Bharadwaj
Robotics Engineer at Paladin
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPrajwal Bharadwaj is a robotics engineer with eight years of experience building perception-driven control and path-planning systems, currently developing aerial robot behaviors and vision-based autonomy at Paladin Drones (Y Combinator S18). He holds an M.S. in Robotics from Georgia Tech and blends academic teaching and research experience with hands-on industry impact—from ML-based performance optimizations at Caterpillar to field-deployed ROS2 control software that cut manual map-building time by over 94%. Comfortable across C++, Python, ROS, Gazebo and Simulink, Prajwal has a track record of translating simulation workflows into production systems and reducing costs through pragmatic software and controls work. A hobby for mechanical simplification shows in past projects (e.g., halving actuators for a cooking robot), reflecting a preference for elegant, resource-efficient designs that scale to real-world deployments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
M.S in Robotics, M.S in Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPre-University Education (PCME), Pre-University Education (PCME) at VVS Sardar Patel PU CollegeBachelor of Technology (BTech) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Kannada, Sanskrit, HindiProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PrajwalBBharadwaj/Walking-Robot-Simulation
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
beginning
PrajwalBBharadwaj/PrajwalBBharadwaj.github.io
Dec 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:217 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
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