Autonomy
Navigation, motion planning, localization, kinematics, controls, and the system engineering that makes them dependable.
Kansas City · Building systems that move
Hi, I’m Arjan. I engineer autonomy
for the real world.
Senior Engineer, Autonomy Applications at Shield AI. I work where robotics software meets physical machines—across navigation, planning, controls, perception, and embedded systems.
09Years in
software
software
02Years focused
on robotics
on robotics
4.0Robotics M.S.
GPA at WPI
GPA at WPI
Currently building
at Shield AI
at Shield AI
01 / Engineering focus
From a path on a screen to a machine moving safely through the world.
Robotics
ROS 2, Nav2, Gazebo, Isaac Gym, PyTorch, OpenCV, and hands-on work with aerial and ground platforms.
Embedded
Nine years of production software experience, from sensor interfaces and edge systems to connected industrial products.
02 / Selected experience
Engineering intelligent machines from silicon to system.
Now
Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Autonomy Applications
Applying autonomy engineering to mission-critical aircraft systems.
Autonomy · Aerospace
2024—26
Vermeer Corporation
Autonomy Engineer II
Led local navigation with Nav2 Regulated Pure Pursuit and compensatory curvature control; co-led ground-vehicle motion planning and designed reusable autonomy modules across industrial platforms.
ROS 2 · Nav2 · C++
2023—24
Ainstein AI
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Improved radar sensing and implemented radar-camera sensor fusion for golf-ball tracking.
Radar · Sensor fusion
2017—23
Lindsay · AGI SureTrack · ZOLOZ
Embedded & Computer Vision Engineering
Technical leadership on GPS-guided irrigation, commercial IoT products, robotic LiDAR inventory systems, and biometric camera platforms.
Embedded · CV · IoT
03 / Selected builds
Research, coursework, and hardware—made tangible in code.
RL POLICY✣
01 · Learning-based autonomy
Autonomous Drone Simulation
Deep reinforcement learning experiments for quadrotor flight and obstacle avoidance in GPU-parallel Isaac Gym environments.
- Python
- Isaac Gym
- PyTorch
6 AXIS / RPI⌁
02 · Mechatronics
6-DoF Robotic Arm
Controller, kinematics, URDF model, and Raspberry Pi servo interface for a physical six-axis arm.
- Python
- URDF
- Raspberry Pi
SEARCH SPACE
03 · Algorithms
Motion Planning
Implementations and studies spanning sampling-based planning, graph search, and lattice planners.
- Python
- A*
- PRM
PERCEPTION◉
04 · Perception
Computer Vision Playground
A working laboratory for modern computer-vision techniques and experiments.
- OpenCV
- Python
- Vision
04 / About
An embedded foundation.
A robotics future.
I’m an engineer who likes the whole stack: the math behind a planner, the C++ node that runs it, the interface to the machine, and the field test that proves it works.
I’m completing an M.S. in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, building on a B.S. in Computer Engineering with a mathematics minor from the University of Kansas.
C++PythonROS 2Nav2ControlsMotion PlanningLocalizationPyTorchOpenCV
05 / Connect