Projects
Roughly a decade of building things, from a pen plotter made in a college workshop
to soft robotic devices now in clinical use in the United States. A fuller
slide-by-slide version lives in my
project portfolio.
Medical robotics : Bioliberty
Bioliberty · shipped, FDA-registered
Lifeglov / Lifehub
Soft robotic rehabilitation system for upper-limb recovery after stroke. Lifeglov is a purely pneumatic wearable; Lifehub is the controller that drives it, runs the therapy modes and captures session data. Named co-inventor on the resulting PCT application.
| Firmware safety architecture for the whole pneumatic system: test sequencing, failure thresholds, diagnostic outputs and safe-state recovery, now used to validate and service every unit before and after clinical deployment |
| Led the engineering design of the production system: software and database built from scratch for firmware deployment, device tracking, automated in-line testing and clinical-grade traceability |
| Made the technical design decisions for the Bluetooth Low Energy stack, balancing medical-grade reliability, power and data integrity. Runs in every deployed Lifehub unit |
| Scaled the flagship product from prototype to 100+ commercial units in active US clinical use |
| Currently engineering the firmware architecture for the next generation of Lifeglov |
| Deployed at Sheltering Arms Institute, Lifepoint Rehabilitation, Mt. Sinai Abilities Research Centre and the US Department of Veterans Affairs |
Bioliberty · internal R&D, 2023 – 2024
Projects Naur and Pare
The internal R&D programmes from which the invention in WO2025190946A1 emerged. Mechanical design, additive manufacturing, firmware and scripting across STM32 and Nordic nRF52840.
| Pressure-waveform-based motion sensing, replacing discrete sensors |
| Undesired-movement detection for spasticity safety |
| Adaptive parallel and series gas pump configurations |
| Now the technical core of the FDA-registered product line, and the subject of the patent |
Innovate UK · £435,000 · ref. 10071274
Biomedical Catalyst programme
Served as mechatronics engineer on a grant-funded research programme, engineering the machine learning and data-collection architecture for the soft robotic glove.
| Data-collection pipeline and sensing architecture for the glove |
| Awarded December 2023 |
Personal builds
Open source · in progress
A home plant-monitoring system that scales from one plant to a houseful. Sensor nodes over BLE, an ESP32-S3 hub, a cloud backend and an iPhone app. Named after Linnaeus. Three repositories, one contract between them, currently running in my flat.
FirmwareCloudiOS
| BTHome v2 advertisements encrypted per-node with AES-CCM-128, replay-protected by the BTHome counter |
| Zephyr / nRF Connect SDK on XIAO nRF52840 probes and a Thingy:53 room node; ESP-IDF on the hub |
| Project Norman : MQTT ingestion, Postgres with TimescaleDB, FastAPI, Terraform on GCP |
| SwiftUI app with Bonjour hub discovery on the LAN and cloud failover when away from home |
| REST API defined by an OpenAPI spec that the iOS app and an M5Paper e-paper reader both compile against |
| Open to contributors across firmware, backend, iOS and design |
Study · in progress
Assistax reproduction
Reproducing a JAX/MJX multi-agent RL benchmark for assistive robotics on hardware I actually have, then on rented GPUs when that ran out.
| IPPO baselines trained on the scratch-itch task; 40M timesteps |
| Local GTX 1660 Ti first, then an L4 on GCP once memory and time became the constraint |
| Write-up in Writing |
Earlier professional work
Space Resources Laboratory · 2022 – 2023
Project Ampère : CubeSat magnetorquer
Proof-of-concept magnetorquer module for 3U CubeSat attitude control at the Barclays Eagle Lab, Cranfield. Joined as an R&D intern and moved to engineer within six months.
| Combined additive manufacturing with conventional fabrication |
| Validated magnetic moment performance against design targets using FEMM electromagnetic analysis |
| Researched and designed control architecture for a 3U CubeSat platform, delivering grant-funded R&D milestones |
Volador FlyTech · 2022
BLDC test rigs and vision system
Control and autonomous navigation subsystems for an ultra-light eVTOL aircraft, plus the test hardware to characterise its propulsion.
| Two generations of brushless DC motor test rig : ATmega328P, then Raspberry Pi Pico and 4B, enabling systematic propulsion-efficiency measurement and failure-point characterisation |
| Vision-based navigation integrating OpenCV, ROS and Pixhawk Cube Orange flight controllers |
| Scaled drone prototypes on DJI Naza V3 and Pixhawk, with DJI Tello platforms for computer-vision testing |
Self-employed, Upwork · 2020 – 2022
Freelance mechanical and embedded design
Mechanical design, additive manufacturing and robotics work for clinical, industrial and consumer clients.
| Single-hand-operated syringe holder for TechnoSmiles dental practice: identified the clinical need and took it from concept to clinician deployment |
| Mechanical housing and integration software (ROS, C++, Python) for a portable LiDAR scanning unit |
| Firmware and a Bluetooth communication stack (ATmega328P, C++) for Carbonado Backpacks’ connected motorcycle backpack |
Futuristic Labs · 2021
Smart induction base
Thermal sensing for a connected induction cooking vessel, now sold as CookWithSemi.
| Researched thermal sensor placement and benchmarked performance with Fusion 360 thermal simulations |
| Firmware integration on STM32; instrumentation in LabVIEW |
Nuclear Fuel Complex, Dept. of Atomic Energy · 2018
Billet cooling redesign
Redesigned the cooling mechanism for billet manufacturing during fuel-rod-shell production at a Government of India nuclear fuel facility.
| Improved process efficiency by approximately 20% |
| Saved an estimated 30 man-hours per month while increasing production quality |
Academic
MSc thesis · Cranfield with the MTC · 2022
Low-latency real-time 3D environment rendering
A real-time 3D rendering architecture for sub-100ms-latency tele-robotic control, carried out in industry collaboration with the Manufacturing Technology Centre.
| Point Cloud Library, OpenGL, OpenNI2 and Qt5 under C++ STL 11/17 |
| TCP/IP and UDP transport, built with CMake, Boost and Eigen3 |
MSc group project · Best Project, Cranfield and Ocado · 2022
Co-architected a PAL TIAGo-based hotel receptionist robot for DoubleTree by Hilton MK and MK 5G. Awarded Best Group Project by Cranfield University and Ocado Technology.
| SLAM-based autonomous navigation on ROS |
| Computer vision with OpenCV and natural language interaction |
UKSEDS competition · CranSEDS · 2022
Olympus Rover
Volunteer software contributor to Cranfield’s entry in the UKSEDS Olympus Rover competition.
| C++20 on Raspberry Pi 4, with TCP/IP and UDP networking |
BTech final year project · 2018
Smart surveillance mobile robot
A multi-terrain robot architecture integrating Raspberry Pi 3B and Arduino for embedded control, camera-based vision and IoT remote command.
| Combined mechanical chassis fabrication and welding with embedded software development |
BTech · Best Engineered Project, CVR College · 2018
CNC pen plotter
Designed the mechanical system and wrote the firmware to convert digital drawings into physical hard copies. Awarded Best Engineered Project by CVR College of Engineering.
| Arduino Uno, stepper motor control, C++ |