Chirag Anand Reddy

Robotics & Software Engineer

my journey thus far

experience2022 → now

six stations across robotics, flight software, and applied research. newest first, the road running back to where it started.

  1. 01now

    2025.10 → Present

    Robotics Werkstudent

    JARM.AISchweinfurt, DE

    focus
    Pre-seed startup
    domain
    Humanoid · Hardware · VLA
    • Robotics team lead at a pre-seed startup building humanoid robots.
    • Designing an accessible humanoid platform for industry, academia and the home.
    • Shipping the hardware, software and VLA stack for an upper-body prototype.
  2. 02

    2025.05 → 2025.08

    University Research Assistant

    Technische Hochschule Würzburg-SchweinfurtSchweinfurt, DE

    focus
    Robothon 2025
    domain
    Quadruped exploration · Cobot drivers
    result
    3rd · Robothon 2025
    • Team lead for Robothon 2025; finished 3rd, continuing to improve the solution.
    • Exploration of unstructured terrain on a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped.
    • Robust driver for the UR series of cobots.
  3. 03

    2024.07 → 2024.12

    Research Assistant

    Fraunhofer IPASchweinfurt, DE

    focus
    Bachelor's thesis
    domain
    3D template matching · Style transfer
    • Tracking 3D-printed parts in an industrial environment using 3D template matching.
    • Style-transfer learning for robust detection under varied lighting and surface conditions.
  4. 04

    2024.03 → 2024.06

    Flight Software Testing Werkstudent

    Rocket Factory AugsburgAugsburg, DE

    focus
    Thrust-vector control
    domain
    Computer vision · Depth cameras
    • Prototype to track rocket-engine nozzles for calibrating thrust-vector-control actuators.
    • Image processing pipeline coupled with depth cameras for sub-millimetre pose recovery.
  5. 05

    2023.10 → 2024.02

    Flight Computer Intern

    Rocket Factory AugsburgAugsburg, DE

    focus
    Flight computer · RT Linux
    domain
    Systems · Observability
    • Capture and analysis tool for low-level kernel events and network traffic from the flight computer.
    • Flight-computer OS for development boards; integrated Perfetto tracing for Hardware-in-the-Loop tests.
    • Docker GitLab runner on real-time Linux to isolate concurrent pipeline jobs.
    • Extended the analysis tool to integrate flight-computer data and produce PDF reports.
  6. 06

    2022.11 → 2023.06

    Research Assistant

    Fraunhofer IPASchweinfurt, DE

    focus
    First station
    domain
    Mechatronics · ML on audio
    • Designed and built a solution for measuring forces on a 3D-printer extruder.
    • Analysed audio signals from the print process using machine learning.
startNov 2022 · Fraunhofer IPA, Schweinfurt

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