Sapan Agrawal
Autonomy Engineer at Caterpillar Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSapan Agrawal is an Autonomy Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building robotic navigation, motion planning, and control systems across mobile, legged, and manipulator platforms. He holds a Master's in Robotics from WPI and has applied his skills at Caterpillar automating heavy mining equipment, Neato Robotics, Amazon Robotics, JPL, and Honda Research Institute, balancing industry deployment with research rigor. Sapan specializes in integrating motion planning and deep learning to solve real-world autonomy challenges, from truck and dozer navigation to warehouse and consumer robots. He brings a cross-disciplinary foundation in mechanical engineering and mechatronics, coupled with hands-on experience at both startups and large R&D organizations, which helps him translate novel algorithms into production-capable systems. An uncommon strength is his track record of working end-to-end on autonomy stacks for heavy machinery—demonstrating comfort with safety-critical, large-scale systems as well as academic research.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of TechnologySecondary Education, 94%, Secondary Education, 94% at Sacred Heart English High School
Marathi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (45)
urdf9
moveit9
webots8
slam8
robot8
ignition8
gazebosim8
robotics7
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rosbag7
mathematics7
trajectory-optimization7
catkin7
eigen7
ipopt7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sapan-ostic/CS-525-Reinforcement-Learning
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 49 pushes in 3 months
sapan-ostic/programming
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
This repository contains my work in improving my C++ coding skills with problems from various courses and platforms.
Contributions:10 PRs, 35 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 6 months
cppcoding-skillsplatformsproblemsimproving
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