Sandeep Alankar
Robotics Software Engineer at Parsons Corporation
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandeep Alankar is a robotics software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building autonomous systems and a recent MSE in Robotics from UPenn. He has led SLAM, LiDAR-inertial odometry, and real-time semantic inference efforts for both grounded and airborne platforms, collaborating with organizations such as DEVCOM ARL and NASA JPL. Known for deploying perception and point-cloud pipelines in ROS2, he blends research rigor from GRASP with production-focused development at Parsons and the Autoware Foundation. He won top honors in the Autonomous Karting Series for 3D LiDAR SLAM work and has built continually operating robot fleets and multi-terrain exploration stacks. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he brings a taste for pushing human-robot interaction boundaries and a knack for optimizing models and pipelines for constrained, real-time robotics deployments.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, summa cum laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, summa cum laude at Rutgers University–New BrunswickMaster of Science in Engineering - MSE, Robotics, Master of Science in Engineering - MSE, Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, Telugu, English
Github Skills (184)
opencv10
python10
image-processing10
deep-learning10
asio10
boost-asio10
calculator10
ml10
sdk10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
websocket-client10
boost10
data-science10
aws-lambda10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scm-ns/dmlpack
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:211 commits, 53 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
scm-ns/blind.eye
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:86 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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