Work Experience – Hridaanshu (Anshu) Gusain

Mechatronics & Robotics Engineer

Embedded Systems • Computer Vision • Real-time Control • PCB Design

Programming

PythonC/C++Java

Embedded & RTOS

STM32ESP32FreeRTOS

Robotics

ROS/ROS2SLAMKinematics

Hardware

KiCADAltiumPCB Design

Protocols

CANSPI/I2CUART

Vision & ML

OpenCVTensorFlowKeras

🏆 Awards & Recognition

IEEE Systems Council – Best Paper Honorable Mention (2024) UIUC EOH – Distinguished Technology (2025) FRC 2791 – Programming Award (2024) STANYS – Honors (2024) GRCSEF – Honorable Mention (2024)

Mechatronics Engineer – Blink Robotics Systems

Champaign, IL · 2025 – Present

Designed and validated full embedded stack for 4-DOF robotic arm (STM32/ESP32, ROS2, motor & sensor drivers).
Integrated depth camera with NVIDIA Orin to improve mapping & state estimation accuracy.
Implemented safety-critical PID/state machine control with watchdog timers, reducing bench faults.
Built URDF + Gazebo simulation loop, accelerating motion-planning experiments by ~40%.

STM32ESP32FreeRTOSROS2CANC/C++PythonKiCAD

Co-Founder & Embedded Systems Engineer – MiteOut Precision Technologies

AgTech · 2024 – Present

Co-founded AgTech startup focused on precision beekeeping hardware.
Designed 4-layer mixed-signal PCBs with robust power stages and calibrated sensor pipelines.
Developed FreeRTOS-based firmware for real-time scheduling and wireless data collection.
Extended field uptime via low-power modes and accelerated pilot revisions with drop-in board spins.

Power MgmtI2C/SPIFreeRTOSPlatformIOKiCAD/Altium

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Additive Manufacturing Researcher / Product Lead – ASME

Robotic 3D printing · 6-DOF control · CAN

Directed development of a 6-DOF robotic 3D printer with ROS-based multi-axis control.
Built custom control boards and synchronized CAN bus networks for accurate toolpath execution.
Implemented non-planar toolpaths with feedback, enabling angled and curved prints.
Led product demonstrations, showcasing novel robotic additive manufacturing capabilities.

ROSCANKinematicsCustom Boards

Software/Hardware Intern – CloudCage

Summer 2025

Automated CRM workflow integrations and internal platform syncs with Python.
Assisted server management and validation of Linux-based infrastructure.
Built and validated JetKVM remote access hardware, reducing manual tickets and speeding field setup.

PythonLinuxAutomationServers

Bioinformatics Researcher – Deep Learning for Nuclei Segmentation

Lead author · IEEE paper · 2022–2024

Designed and trained U-Net deep learning models for hyperspectral nuclei segmentation.
Led dataset preprocessing, experiment tracking, and publication as IEEE paper lead author.
Awarded Best Paper Honorable Mention by IEEE Systems Council (2024).

TensorFlowKerasImage Analysis

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Lead Programmer – FRC Team 2791

Control • Vision • Motion Planning · 2020–2024

Led software development for competitive robotics (Java/C++), covering drivetrain, vision, and autonomous subsystems.
Implemented motion profiling and real-time PID/PIDf tuning for stable autonomous behavior.
Integrated fiducial markers for pose estimation, improving autonomous scoring reliability.

C++/JavaControlVision