The engineers

Four engineers, laid out as components. Each carries the work they are accountable for — with the organization that work was done for, named.

Kartikey Pathak

SLAM and Nav2 autonomous navigation for an industrial vehicle in a GPS-denied environment, using ultra-wideband ranging for centimetre-level indoor positioning.— Krishna Defence
Robotics control systems for an assistive-mobility platform — simulation, differential-drive kinematics and sensor fusion, carried through to a half-scale hardware prototype.— NishCorp Technologies

Embedded Linux board bring-up on NXP i.MX95 — HDMI, camera, VPU and audio brought up and validated, with firmware, device-tree and kernel configuration issues resolved along the way.— Mecha
Patches merged into the mainline Linux kernel.— Linux Kernel
Board support for PocketBeagle 2 (AM62x) merged upstream into Apache NuttX, alongside documentation and refactoring work.— Apache NuttX

Founding electronics engineer on an early-stage robot: a custom Linux-capable single-board computer, a multi-board architecture, mixed-signal audio, and power management across Li-ion and Li-Po with USB-C charging and protection.— Eyecandy Robotics
Ultra-wideband localization firmware on Zephyr for autonomous vehicles operating where GPS is unreliable.— Krishna Defence
80+ boards designed, fabricated and deployed for hands-on hardware workshops the four of us built and ran.

Systems & Low-level

Founding engineer on a formally verified, safety-critical RTOS — hardware-agnostic across ARM64 and RISC-V, built toward ISO 26262 and DO-178C.— RedKill OS
Google Summer of Code 2026, with The Linux Foundation.— Google Summer of Code
Patches merged into the mainline Linux kernel.— Linux Kernel

Safety-Critical RTOS