Suraj Bonagiri
Founder at Arka Aerospace
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSuraj Bonagiri is a founder and robotics researcher with nine years of hands-on experience building autonomous systems, from flight control algorithms for drones to telemetry and industrial machine interfaces. Based in Hyderabad after four years in Bengaluru, he blends ECE fundamentals from PESIT with PhD-level robotics work at IIIT Hyderabad to tackle real-world autonomy problems. He founded Arka Aerospace to translate research into products, drawing on internships where he deployed autonomous flight software for DJI platforms and contributed to robotics research labs. Suraj pairs a maker’s instinct for design and prototyping with growing expertise in machine learning for complex prediction tasks, a transition driven by recognizing the limits of rule-based control. Equally comfortable designing websites and leading creative efforts, he enjoys hunting emerging technologies in his free time. He embraces responsibility and iterative learning over top grades, favoring practical impact and continual skill expansion.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering at PES Institute of Technology - Banglore South CampusDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at IIIT Hyderabad
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (68)
ros10
robotics10
drones10
deep-q-network10
mavlink9
autopilot9
ignition9
openai-gym9
q-learning9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
simulator9
solver9
px49
rover9
gazebosim9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
suraj2596/RVO_rospy
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
suraj2596/suraj2596.github.io
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
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