Virtana - President & Founder

2017 onwards : St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
Virtana is a Caribbean-based software outsourcing and robotics firm. Virtana brings Silicon Valley's curiosity, culture, & world-class technology development to the beautiful islands of Trinidad & Tobago. Virtana’s software engineers and roboticists are ready to augment your existing engineering efforts and accelerate your global business.

Google - Senior Software Engineer

2014 - 2017: San Francisco, USA
Engineering Lead for the sensor calibration division of Google’s VR & Tango teams, helping to successfully launch Tango & ARCore. Responsible for designing & developing factory fixtures & algorithms to calibrate IMUs, depth sensors, and cameras on Chinese mobile device production lines. Also supported multi-sensor system calibration and factory deployment for several internal special-projects. Managed a distributed team of engineers, vendors, and production partners spread across San Francisco, China, Korea, Singapore, Belgium, and Germany.

hiDOF - Cofounder

2012 - 2014: San Francisco, USA

hiDOF provides consulting and contracting services in robotics & automation. Clients include tech start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies. Projects have involved indoor vehicle navigation, automobile motion planning, visual inertial navigation, visual monocular SLAM, and real-time controller development. hiDOF has also contributed to Google's Project Tango.

Zee.Aero - Systems Engineer (now Kitty Hawk & Wisk)

2011 - 2012: San Francisco, USA

Wisk is an urban air-mobility company dedicated to delivering safe everyday flight for everyone. With over a decade of piloted and autonomous flight experience, we’ve created Cora—our all-electric, self-flying air taxi that will change the future of daily commutes and urban travel.

Willow Garage - Systems Engineer

2008 - 2011
Vijay developed the PR2’s calibration software stack & co-developed ROS’s task dispatching system, actionlib.  Other projects involved image processing, LIDAR processing, 3D reconstruction, classical control theory, microprocessor hardware bringup, PCB debugging, software/hardware integration, kinematics, and motion capture systems.