Curriculum vitae

Apr 2023 - Present

Robotics Engineer (R&D) - Bioliberty Ltd, Edinburgh

Medical soft-robotics company (approx. 35 people) building AI-enabled wearable rehabilitation devices for stroke recovery. Approx. £11.9M raised including a £7.7M Series A. Products FDA-registered and deployed across major US rehabilitation networks.

First full-time engineer. Led Projects Naur and Pare, the internal R&D programmes from which the invention in PCT patent WO2025190946A1 emerged, becoming one of seven named co-inventors.

Contributed engineering concepts including pressure-waveform-based motion sensing (replacing discrete sensors), undesired-movement detection for spasticity safety and adaptive pneumatic pump configurations, now the technical core of the flagship products.

Designed and built the firmware safety architecture for Lifehub’s entire pneumatic system: test sequencing logic, failure thresholds, diagnostic outputs and safe-state recovery, now used to validate and service every unit before and after clinical deployment.

Led the engineering design of the Lifehub production system, building the software and database from scratch for firmware deployment, device tracking, automated in-line testing and clinical-grade traceability, scaling from prototype to over 100 commercial units in active US clinical use.

Made the technical design decisions for the Bluetooth Low Energy stack, balancing medical-grade reliability, power optimisation and data integrity. Completed Bluetooth development certification to lead the work; the stack runs in every deployed unit.

Mechatronics engineer on the £435,000 Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst grant (Dec 2023, ref. 10071274), engineering the machine learning and data-collection architecture for the soft robotic glove.

Currently engineering the firmware architecture for the next generation of Lifeglov.

Sep 2022 – Mar 2023

R&D Engineer - Space Resources Laboratory Ltd, Cranfield

CubeSat subsystem provider : structures, power, attitude control, payloads, propulsion.

Designed and fabricated a proof-of-concept magnetorquer module for 3U CubeSat attitude control, combining additive manufacturing with conventional fabrication and validating magnetic moment performance against design targets via FEMM electromagnetic analysis.

Researched and designed control architecture for a 3U CubeSat platform, delivering grant-funded R&D milestones.

Apr 2022 – Nov 2022

Control System Engineer (R&D) - Volador FlyTech, Milton Keynes

Ultra-light eVTOL aircraft startup developing autonomous urban mobility.

Designed control and autonomous navigation safety subsystems, integrating vision-based sensors with OpenCV, ROS and Pixhawk Cube Orange flight controllers to enable autonomous flight behaviours.

Designed and built two generations of brushless DC motor test rig (ATmega328P, then Raspberry Pi Pico and 4B), enabling systematic propulsion-efficiency measurement and failure-point characterisation.

Developed scaled drone prototypes on DJI Naza V3 and Pixhawk Cube Orange, and integrated DJI Tello platforms for computer-vision testing.

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022

Mechanical Design Engineer (Freelance) - Self-employed, Upwork, Hyderabad

Freelance consultancy delivering mechanical design, additive manufacturing and robotics solutions for clinical, industrial and consumer clients.

Designed and manufactured a single-hand-operated syringe holder for TechnoSmiles dental practice, identifying a clinical need and delivering a working device from concept to clinician deployment.

Engineered the mechanical housing and integration software (ROS, C++, Python) for a portable LiDAR scanning unit, enabling mobile 3D mapping.

Developed firmware (ATmega328P, C++) and a Bluetooth communication stack for Carbonado Backpacks’ connected motorcycle backpack.

Jul 2021 – Sep 2021

Mechanical R&D Engineer - Futuristic Labs, Hyderabad

Smart kitchen appliance startup developing connected induction cooking technology, now CookWithSemi.

Researched thermal sensor placement for an induction cooking vessel, benchmarked performance with Fusion 360 thermal simulations, and integrated firmware on STM32.

May 2018 – Jun 2018

Junior Design Engineer (Intern) - Nuclear Fuel Complex, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Hyderabad

Government of India nuclear fuel manufacturing facility.

Redesigned the cooling mechanism for billet manufacturing during fuel-rod-shell production, improving process efficiency by approximately 20% and saving an estimated 30 man-hours per month while increasing production quality.

Oct 2021 – Sep 2022

MSc Robotics - Cranfield University

IMechE-accredited programme meeting the academic requirement for Chartered Engineer (CEng) registration.

Individual thesis: “Real-Time 3D Environment for Low-Latency Collaborative Tele-Robotics Applications”: industry collaboration with the Manufacturing Technology Centre. A real-time 3D rendering architecture for sub-100ms-latency tele-robotic control using Point Cloud Library, OpenGL, Qt5 and TCP/IP under C++ STL 11/17.

Group project, Best Project award: co-architected a PAL TIAGo-based hotel receptionist robot for DoubleTree by Hilton MK and MK 5G, integrating SLAM-based autonomous navigation, computer vision and natural language processing on ROS.

Modules: Fundamentals of Robotics, Robotics Control, AI and Machine Learning for Robotics, Programming Methods for Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Vision for Robotics, Psychology Ethics and Standards.

Sep 2014 – May 2018

BTech Mechanical Engineering - JNTU Hyderabad

Final year project: smart surveillance mobile robot using IoT: a multi-terrain robot architecture integrating Raspberry Pi 3B and Arduino for embedded control, camera-based vision and IoT remote command.

Second year project, Best Project in college: CNC pen plotter: designed the mechanical system and developed the firmware to convert digital drawings into physical hard copies.

PCT · WIPO

Quinn S., Bradley C., O’Hanlon R., Armstrong R., Carter H.C., Tamma M.R., Maclean M.J. (2025). “Soft Robotic Assistive Device.” WIPO publication WO2025190946A1. Filed 11 Mar 2025; published 18 Sep 2025. Priority GB2403589.1 (12 Mar 2024). Assignee: Bioliberty Ltd.