Summary
Pratyush Sahoo is a perception and computer vision software engineer with eight years of experience building vision-based autonomy for robots and drones, currently working on perception at Pickle Robot Company. He combines deep geometry and optimization expertise with practical SLAM and visual localization systems honed at Bell Labs, iRobot, and Sony R&D, shipping lightweight, low-compute solutions for real-time deployment. A hands-on C++ and Python developer, he has delivered production modules such as global covariance recovery and semi-automatic annotation tools that halved labeling time and reduced drift in VIO systems. Pratyush also co-founded a healthcare AI startup and led product-grade computer vision efforts for infection monitoring, reflecting an uncommon blend of research, entrepreneurship, and end-to-end system engineering. Trained at IIT-BHU and WPI in robotics, he often bridges academic advances and pragmatic engineering, with a knack for improving pipelines and data efficiency that accelerates model training and deployment.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Robotics, Master of Science - MS Robotics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
High School Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Mathematics and Computer Science at DAV Public School
Bachelor of Technology, Bachelor of Technology at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
English, Hindi