Varun Nayak
Senior Robotics Engineer at Dexterity, Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Nayak is a Senior Robotics Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and deploying real-world robotic systems for logistics, surgical assistance, and autonomous navigation. With an MS in Robotics from Stanford and a mechanical engineering background from BITS Pilani, he specializes in robotics software architecture, motion planning, and multi-robot coordination, and holds patent-pending innovations that boosted throughput by over 40% in production. At Dexterity he re-architected application stacks to an event-driven framework, built pub/sub infrastructure and visualization tooling, and helped operate fleets of 30+ robots in continuous service. He blends control-theoretic rigor (operational space control, impedance modes) with systems engineering—CI/CD, cloud deployment, and observability—to move prototypes into reliable production. Outside work he teaches middle-school robotics and has a track record of research contributions to manipulator kinematics and aerial contact dynamics, signaling a rare mix of pedagogy, research depth, and production impact.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHigher Secondary School Certificate, Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Electronics, 91%, Higher Secondary School Certificate, Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Electronics, 91% at Ramnarain Ruia College - MumbaiHigh School, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, 94%, High School, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, 94% at Swami Vivekanand High School, Chembur, MumbaiMaster of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering (Robotics), 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering (Robotics), 4.0/4.0 at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi
Github Skills (6)
autopilot2
ros2
optical-flow2
python1
client-library1
golang1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
varununayak/varununayak.github.io
Apr 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
varununayak/refactoring
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:50 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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