Smit Shah
Robotics VLA Engineer at General Motors
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSmit Shah is a Robotics VLA Engineer with a decade of experience building AI-driven robotic systems, currently pursuing an MS in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation at WPI and based in San Jose. He has applied computer vision, SLAM, and deep learning across autonomous navigation, LiDAR-based dimensioning, and vision-language models, moving prototypes into real-world deployments at companies like Invento Robotics and Prime Vision. Notable achievements include a multi-site auto-docking system, a 92.7% accurate fall-detection solution, and improving localization by 70% through sensor fusion and EKF/UKF. Comfortable across perception, control, and system integration, he also has hands-on experience migrating stacks from ROS to ROS2 and building RAG-supported knowledge agents. Smit combines academic rigor with product-focused engineering, favoring fast-paced environments where research meets practical autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BTech - Bachelor of Technology Electrical Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, BTech - Bachelor of Technology Electrical Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster of Science - MS Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master of Science - MS Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (121)
angular9
cli9
amazon-ecs9
typescript9
h2-database9
bit9
jpa8
stripe-api8
chatbot8
api8
graphql-query8
governance8
mysql-database8
command-line-interface8
security8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shah-smit/techtrek-api
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 reviews, 81 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
spring-bootsql-servermysqlh2-databasemicroservice
shah-smit/live-stream-hack
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:23 commits, 17 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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