Atharv Namdeo · Technical Resume

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore

2025 – 2029

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering (Core)

Technical Skills

LANGUAGES:

Python, C/C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Rust (familiar), Shell Scripting.

ROBOTICS & UAV:

PX4 Autopilot, MAVLink, ArduPilot, ROS / ROS2, Gazebo, Rocker-Bogie Kinematics, 4-DOF Arm Control, IMU/GPS/LiDAR sensor fusion, Gas sensors (MQ-7, MQ-9, MQ-135).

AI & VISION:

PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLOv8/v11 (aerial SAR fine-tuning), 3D Gaussian Splatting (nerfstudio/gsplat), GeoCLIP, HuggingFace Transformers, FinBERT.

FULL-STACK & CLOUD:

Next.js (App Router), React, Fastify, FastAPI, Node.js, Streamlit, PostgreSQL, Prisma, DuckDB, Redis, Docker, PWA, Tailwind CSS.

QUANT & DATA:

Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Plotly, Custom Backtesting Engine, Deflated Sharpe Ratio, Bonferroni/Šidák P-Hacking Corrections.

Selected Engineering Projects

SAR Autonomous Drone Swarm & GCS Mission Control

2026 · Python, PX4, YOLO, FastAPI

Engineered an autonomous multi-UAV Search and Rescue platform with coordinated flight telemetry, dynamic search-grid partitioning, and tactical Ground Control Station (GCS) map dashboard.
Fine-tuned lightweight YOLO models for top-down 40m aerial human detection, overcoming severe scale invariance; integrated with ground scout rover carrying MQ-7/MQ-9 gas sensors for hazardous zone exploration.
Cleared the Smart India Hackathon (SIH 2026) internal round (Team Flying ACE, Problem SIH2617).

Silver Rover — Planetary Rocker-Bogie Rover

2026 · C++, ROS, Microcontrollers

Designed and built a 6-wheel rocker-bogie planetary rover with articulated 4-DOF manipulator arm for obstacle clearing and soil sampling at the TechnoXian World Robotics Championship.
Implemented inverse kinematics for arm control, differential suspension for high-roughness terrain traversability, and telemetric radio link.

QuantZen — NIFTY 500 Quantitative Research System

2025–2026 · Python, DuckDB, Streamlit

Built an institutional-grade swing-trading backtesting engine on the NIFTY 500 universe with point-in-time constituent filters, avoiding survivorship bias across 44MB DuckDB database.
Integrated Indian transaction cost model (STT, brokerage, market-impact slippage), deflated Sharpe ratio validation, and a hypothesis registry preventing false discoveries.

GeoTrace — AI Video Geolocation Intelligence

2026 · PyTorch, GeoCLIP, FastAPI

Created a forensic OSINT platform predicting video coordinates via keyframe scene decomposition, OCR landmark recognition, sun-shadow orientation, and GeoCLIP geographic embedding search.

Hive — Realtime Student Community Platform (Not Public Yet — Private Monorepo)

2026 · Next.js, Fastify, Socket.IO, Postgres

Architected a verified campus platform with Fastify WebSockets, Redis pub/sub, HMAC-hashed anonymous aliases with cryptographic reveal auditing, and 147 green automated integration tests.

Honors & Leadership

IOQM 2024–25 Merit Certificate: Ranked in top 10% nationally in the Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Mathematics.
Co-Founder & Autonomy Lead, ACE Robotics (Feb 2026 – Present): Leading rover autonomy, hardware fabrication, and competition entry.
Junior Core Member, VinnovateIT (Dec 2025 – Present): Technical developer and UI/UX designer for MessIT, Latch, StudyHub, and B3.
Hackathons: Finalist at Equinox 2026 (Robovitics); 5th Position at InnovAct 2026 (IIC, VIT).