LIDAR · SCAN ACTIVE
SWEEP :: 360°
OBJ DETECTED :: 09
FUSION :: RGB-D
SYSTEM ONLINE
UNIT :: DR-001
POSE :: 6-DOF
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ROBOTS::Universal Robots · Fanuc · UFactory · MecademicCAMERAS::Teledyne DALSA · Lucid Vision · Datalogic · Cognex · Basler · RealSense · GoPro · Arducam · Industrial lighting & lensesIPCS::Nexcobot · Siemens SIMATIC · BeckhoffEDGE AI::NVIDIA Jetson Nano · NVIDIA Jetson AGX OrinPLCS::Beckhoff · SiemensSENSORS::3D Depth Cameras · LiDAR · Laser Distance Sensors · Laser Profilometers · Optical Encoders · Linear & Rotary Encoders · Laser Line Scanners · Temperature Sensors · Barcode Readers · IMUCONTROLLERS::Arduino · ESP32 · STM32 · Raspberry PiDRIVES::Automation Direct · Fanuc · Sanyo DenkiPROTOCOLS::GigE Vision · EtherCAT · EtherNet/IP · PROFINET · Modbus TCP · Modbus RTU · CAN bus · Serial (RS-232 / RS-485) · TCP/IP Sockets · RTDE
ROBOTS::Universal Robots · Fanuc · UFactory · MecademicCAMERAS::Teledyne DALSA · Lucid Vision · Datalogic · Cognex · Basler · RealSense · GoPro · Arducam · Industrial lighting & lensesIPCS::Nexcobot · Siemens SIMATIC · BeckhoffEDGE AI::NVIDIA Jetson Nano · NVIDIA Jetson AGX OrinPLCS::Beckhoff · SiemensSENSORS::3D Depth Cameras · LiDAR · Laser Distance Sensors · Laser Profilometers · Optical Encoders · Linear & Rotary Encoders · Laser Line Scanners · Temperature Sensors · Barcode Readers · IMUCONTROLLERS::Arduino · ESP32 · STM32 · Raspberry PiDRIVES::Automation Direct · Fanuc · Sanyo DenkiPROTOCOLS::GigE Vision · EtherCAT · EtherNet/IP · PROFINET · Modbus TCP · Modbus RTU · CAN bus · Serial (RS-232 / RS-485) · TCP/IP Sockets · RTDE
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DEVANG RAVAL

Software Developer

Ibuildintelligentsystemsthatbridgethegapbetweensoftwareandthephysicalworld.Specializinginindustrialautomation,computervision,robotics,andprecisionmetrology.
// 01OPERATIONS LOG

Work Experience

// ENTRY 01 · Software Engineer

Bishop-Wisecarver / Symation

Mar 2024 – PresentPittsburg, CA

Building end-to-end industrial automation software that bridges machine vision, robotics, and precision metrology for semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and agricultural clients. Every system ships with sub-thousandths-of-an-inch accuracy requirements and must operate reliably on factory floors 24/7.

Industrial AutomationMachine VisionRoboticsMetrology
Projects:11
Active:3
Shipped:8
// ENTRY 02 · Software Developer Intern

Pioneer Nuts Co

Apr 2023 – Jan 2024Chico, CA

Built computer-vision quality control and a portfolio of internal web tools - work-order tracking, KPI dashboards, and a factory-forms intake application - for a high-throughput walnut processing operation.

Computer VisionAgricultural TechReal-Time SortingInternal ToolsAWS
Projects:04
Active:0
Shipped:4
// ENTRY 03 · Backend Software Developer

Chico State Enterprise

Jan 2024 – Apr 2024Chico, CA

Replatformed the SAP University Competence Center (UCC) web platform onto a modern MERN stack with documented REST APIs and CI/CD on GitHub.

BackendMERNCI/CDEducation Tech
Projects:01
Active:0
Shipped:1
// ENTRY 04 · Mathematics & Physics Tutor (Level 2)

Student Learning Center · CSU Chico

Jan 2022 – Mar 2024Chico, CA

Level-2 peer tutor for math and physics; trained new tutors and streamlined the timesheet workflow.

TeachingMathematicsPhysics
Projects:01
Active:0
Shipped:1
// ENTRY 05 · Energy Analyst

Drashta Power Consultant

Jan 2020 – Jul 2021Ahmedabad, GJ, India

Energy-price forecasting and break-even analysis for solar projects; piloted an OpenCV-based infrared inspection workflow for solar-panel fault detection.

Data AnalyticsMachine LearningSolar EnergyComputer Vision
Projects:02
Active:0
Shipped:2
// ENTRY 06 · Automation Intern

Sabstone Research

May 2019 – Jul 2019Gandhinagar, GJ, India

Hands-on electronics and automation internship - Autodesk Eagle board design and prototype automation systems for farm and elevator use cases.

ElectronicsPCB DesignAutomation
Projects:01
Active:0
Shipped:1
// 02LANGUAGES · ML · ROBOTICS · CLOUD

Software Stack

Languages, frameworks, ML / vision libraries, simulation tools, vendor SDKs, and OS targets used across the projects in the experience section. Notes on hover for specific variants and which project they were used on.

Programming Languages

11

Languages used across robot control, industrial UIs, embedded firmware, ML pipelines, and web tooling.

  • C#
  • Python
  • C++
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • SQL
  • URScript
  • Karel
  • Bash
  • PowerShell

Deep Learning & AI

11

Frameworks for training, fine-tuning, and deploying neural networks — used heavily on the cattle posture-analysis and pharmaceutical-robotics perception stacks.

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • YOLO
  • RF-DETR
  • ONNX
  • scikit-learn
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • LLaMA
  • Roboflow
  • Gemma 4

NVIDIA Edge-AI Stack

10

GPU compute, edge-AI inference, and synthetic-data pipelines on NVIDIA hardware. Powered the livestock vaccination and cattle posture/disease-detection projects.

  • CUDA
  • cuDNN
  • TensorRT
  • DeepStream SDK
  • TAO Toolkit
  • Isaac Sim
  • Isaac ROS
  • Triton Inference Server
  • JetPack SDK
  • Omniverse

Computer Vision & Data Science

14

Image processing, point-cloud handling, and scientific computing libraries across Python and .NET.

  • OpenCV
  • EmguCV
  • scikit-image
  • Pillow
  • Albumentations
  • Open3D
  • PCL
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • SciPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
  • Plotly
  • Jupyter

Robotics Frameworks

12

Middleware, motion planning, kinematics, and robot-vendor SDKs.

  • ROS
  • ROS 2
  • Nav2
  • MoveIt 2
  • ros2_control
  • tf2
  • rclpy / rclcpp
  • RViz 2
  • URDF / Xacro
  • URCap SDK
  • RoboDK SDK
  • RTDE

Simulation

06

Physics-based simulators for offline programming, digital twins, and synthetic data generation.

  • Isaac Sim
  • Gazebo Classic
  • Gazebo (Gz Sim)
  • RoboDK
  • Fanuc ROBOGUIDE
  • URSim

Machine-Vision SDKs

06

Vendor SDKs paired one-to-one with the cameras on the Hardware Lab.

  • Sapera LT
  • Pylon
  • Arena SDK
  • RealSense SDK
  • GenICam
  • MVTec HALCON

Industrial Programming

06

Vendor-specific environments for PLC, motion, drives, and HMI on factory floors.

  • Siemens TIA Portal
  • Beckhoff TwinCAT
  • Sanyo Denki SANMOTION
  • Fanuc ROBOGUIDE
  • Universal Robots PolyScope
  • Automation Direct Productivity Suite

.NET, Web & UI Frameworks

13

Desktop industrial UIs and the web stack that powers research dashboards and this portfolio.

  • .NET Framework / .NET
  • WPF
  • WinForms
  • MVVM Architecture
  • Entity Framework
  • Next.js
  • React
  • React Three Fiber
  • Three.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Node.js

Databases

05

Relational and document stores for production telemetry, inspection records, and tooling.

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • MongoDB

Cloud & DevOps

09

Containers, deployment, and version control across local, cloud, and edge environments.

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux
  • Vercel

Operating Systems

08

Desktop, server, embedded, and real-time targets across deployed and development machines.

  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • Ubuntu 24.04
  • NVIDIA JetPack
  • Real-Time OS (RTOS)
  • TwinCAT/BSD
// 03ROBOTS · SENSORS · CONTROLLERS

Hardware Lab

Equipment I've programmed against, calibrated, integrated, or shipped to production. Grouped by category — robots, machine-vision cameras, industrial PCs, PLCs, sensors, microcontrollers, drives, and field-bus protocols.

Industrial & Collaborative Robots

04

Collaborative and industrial robot arms used across machine-tending, inspection, and vision-guided pick-and-place applications.

  • Universal Robots
  • Fanuc
  • UFactory
  • Mecademic

Cameras & Vision Hardware

09

Industrial machine-vision cameras and depth sensors for high-resolution inspection, 3D perception, and robot-guided manipulation.

  • Teledyne DALSA
  • Lucid Vision
  • Datalogic
  • Cognex
  • Basler
  • RealSense
  • GoPro
  • Arducam
  • Industrial lighting & lenses

Industrial PCs

03

Industrial computing platforms used as vision processors and motion controllers on factory-floor systems.

  • Nexcobot
  • Siemens SIMATIC
  • Beckhoff

Edge AI Compute

02

NVIDIA edge-AI modules running on-device deep learning, point-cloud inference, and real-time video analytics — backbone of the livestock vaccination and cattle posture-analysis pipelines.

  • NVIDIA Jetson Nano
  • NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin

PLCs

02

Programmable logic controllers for real-time machine control, safety interlocks, and I/O handling.

  • Beckhoff
  • Siemens

Sensors & Metrology

10

Sensors for depth perception, distance, position feedback, surface profiling, and environmental monitoring.

  • 3D Depth Cameras
  • LiDAR
  • Laser Distance Sensors
  • Laser Profilometers
  • Optical Encoders
  • Linear & Rotary Encoders
  • Laser Line Scanners
  • Temperature Sensors
  • Barcode Readers
  • IMU

Microcontrollers & SBCs

04

Microcontrollers and single-board computers used for prototyping, edge logic, and signal routing.

  • Arduino
  • ESP32
  • STM32
  • Raspberry Pi

Drives & Motors

03

Servo and stepper drive systems used to actuate gantries, linear rails, and external robot axes.

  • Automation Direct
  • Fanuc
  • Sanyo Denki

Communication Protocols

10

Field-bus and networking protocols used to integrate cameras, robots, PLCs, and IPCs across an automation cell.

  • GigE Vision
  • EtherCAT
  • EtherNet/IP
  • PROFINET
  • Modbus TCP
  • Modbus RTU
  • CAN bus
  • Serial (RS-232 / RS-485)
  • TCP/IP Sockets
  • RTDE
// 04PERSONAL · RESEARCH

Selected Works

Python, scikit-learn, TensorFlow 2, Pandas

Research Paper at SPIE

Co-authored 'Sensor Fusion with Multi-modal Ground Sensor Network for Endangered Animal Protection in Large Area' (SPIE 2023–24) under Dr. Sam Seiwert at ERP.NGO. Built datasets from YouTube and Cornell sources; trained sensor-fused neural networks to detect endangered animals across large landscapes.

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Python, OpenCV, TensorFlow, YOLO

Autonomous Quadcopter — SUAS 2024

Project Manager and software lead for the Grigora Avis Club SUAS 2024 competition entry. On-board OpenCV / YOLO / TensorFlow pipelines for human following, autonomous corridor navigation, and door classification (open vs. closed, distance, and approach angle).

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Python, OpenCV, TensorFlow, YOLO, xlsxwriter

Live Feedback System

Real-time engagement-and-emotion detector. YOLO + OpenCV for face detection, a TensorFlow classifier for 7-emotion inference twice per second, and a writer that streams labels into Excel and renders charts.

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Python, OpenCV, ROS

Line Follower

Mobile robot that follows a line, detects objects in its path, picks between candidate routes, plans paths according to assigned tasks, and recognises human beings to yield.

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React, JavaScript, Firebase, Jest, AWS Amplify, Docker, GitHub Actions

Bracket Maker

Team-of-five tournament-bracket web app. Served as Scrum Master — ran weekly meetings, drove UI/UX choices, and tracked features in Jira. Wrote tests, configured GitHub Actions, and deployed to AWS Amplify via Docker.

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React, Express, MongoDB, Jest, Docker

Pantry Node

Food-inventory web app for a campus food pantry. QA Team Lead — coordinated task assignment, wrote tests, configured CI/CD and linting on GitHub. Also contributed to the React front-end.

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Next.js, R3F, TypeScript

Portfolio 2026

Next.js 16 personal site with Three.js / React Three Fiber 3D scenes, JSON-LD structured data for AI agents, and a Hardware Lab / Software Stack pulled from a single source of truth.

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// 05ACADEMIC RECORD

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

California State University, Chico

2022 - 2024

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering

Institute of Technology, Nirma University

2016 - 2020
// 06HUMAN INTERFACE

Offline Mode

Hiking
Camping
Chess
Travel
// 07UPLINK · OPEN

Get In Touch

Let's build something intelligent together.

Please feel free to connect with me — I'm always open to discussing robotics, automation, and computer-vision opportunities.

Available for new opportunities
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