Nikhil Kothapalli

Experience

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  Bosch Engineering GmbH

  Dec 2018 - Jun 2019

  Simulation of ADAS
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  Bosch

  Jul 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Master Thesis Student - eVTOL Systemsimulation

    Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

  • eVTOL Sizing Tool Development

    Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
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  Microdrones®

  Sept 2020 - Oct 2024

  • Agile Software Development with C/C++ for Flight Navigation Controller employing an ARM Cortex MCU, using embOS as RTOS. • Ensuring software quality, writing readable codes, participating in code reviews, and cleaning up legacy. Unit and Integration testing using Catch2 framework, SIL & HIL (ROS) Testing, also flight tests for different autonomous features. • Integration of new sensor technology (IMUs, IR-distance) into the flight systems, writing drivers, development of features around sensor data, and finally robust testing.• Development of Mavlink based File transfer library in C/C++, also a Java wrapper around it using JNI for its use in projects using JAVA or Kotlin (Android).• Development of a cross-compilation pipeline using Docker for compiling code base for the target platform (Raspberry PI and Jetson NANO). • Flight Data Analysis Tool Development in Python. Maintenance of fight data in PostgreSQL database. Write SQL queries to generate flight data analytics and insights. Show less

  • Software Developer

    Mar 2021 - Oct 2024

  • Robotics Software Developer

    Sept 2020 - Feb 2021