Roughly a decade of building things, from a pen plotter made in a college workshop
to soft robotic devices now in clinical use in the United States. A fuller
slide-by-slide version lives in my
project portfolio.
Medical robotics : Bioliberty
2023 –
Bioliberty · shipped, FDA-registered
Lifeglov / Lifehub
Soft robotic rehabilitation system for upper-limb recovery after stroke. Lifeglov is a purely pneumatic wearable; Lifehub is the controller that drives it, runs the therapy modes and captures session data. Named co-inventor on the resulting PCT application.
Detail
Firmware safety architecture for the whole pneumatic system: test sequencing, 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 production system: software and database built from scratch for firmware deployment, device tracking, automated in-line testing and clinical-grade traceability
Scaled the flagship product from prototype to 100+ commercial units in active US clinical use
2023–24
Bioliberty · internal R&D
Projects Naur and Pare
The internal R&D programmes from which the invention in WO2025190946A1 emerged. Mechanical design, additive manufacturing, firmware and scripting across STM32 and Nordic nRF52840.
Undesired-movement detection for spasticity safety
Adaptive parallel and series gas pump configurations
2023
Innovate UK · £435,000 · ref. 10071274
Biomedical Catalyst programme
Served as mechatronics engineer on a grant-funded research programme, engineering the machine learning and data-collection architecture for the soft robotic glove.
Detail
Data-collection pipeline and sensing architecture for the glove
Awarded December 2023
Personal builds
Ongoing
Open source
Project Carl
A home plant-monitoring system that scales from one plant to a houseful. Sensor nodes over BLE, an ESP32-S3 hub, a cloud backend and an iPhone app. Named after Linnaeus. Three repositories, one contract between them, currently running in my flat.
Battery nodes advertise over BLE as encrypted BTHome v2; the ESP32-S3 hub republishes to MQTT on GCP, where Postgres with TimescaleDB stores the series and FastAPI serves the iPhone app. Three repositories: Project-Carl for firmware, Project-Norman for cloud, Project-Carl-IOS for the app.Detail
BTHome v2 advertisements encrypted per-node with AES-CCM-128, replay-protected by the BTHome counter
Zephyr / nRF Connect SDK on XIAO nRF52840 probes and a Thingy:53 room node; ESP-IDF on the hub
Project Norman : MQTT ingestion, Postgres with TimescaleDB, FastAPI, Terraform on GCP
Ongoing
Study
Assistax reproduction
Reproducing a JAX/MJX multi-agent RL benchmark for assistive robotics on hardware I actually have, then on rented GPUs when that ran out.
IPPO on the scratch-itch task, 1024 parallel environments, 40M timesteps: 3 h 39 m on the laptop against 2 h 00 m on the L4. The laptop was not slow so much as out of memory — 4.4 of its 6 GB went to XLA preallocation, against 16.8 of 22.5 GB on the L4.Detail
IPPO baselines trained on the scratch-itch task; 40M timesteps
Local GTX 1660 Ti first, then an L4 on GCP once memory and time became the constraint
Earlier professional work
2022–23
Space Resources Laboratory
Project Ampère : CubeSat magnetorquer
Proof-of-concept magnetorquer module for 3U CubeSat attitude control at the Barclays Eagle Lab, Cranfield. Joined as an R&D intern and moved to engineer within six months.
Detail
Validated magnetic moment performance against design targets using FEMM electromagnetic analysis
Researched and designed control architecture for a 3U CubeSat platform, delivering grant-funded R&D milestones
2022
Volador FlyTech
BLDC test rigs and vision system
Control and autonomous navigation subsystems for an ultra-light eVTOL aircraft, plus the test hardware to characterise its propulsion.
Detail
Two generations of brushless DC motor test rig : ATmega328P, then Raspberry Pi Pico and 4B, enabling systematic propulsion-efficiency measurement and failure-point characterisation
Mechanical design, additive manufacturing and robotics work for clinical, industrial and consumer clients.
Detail
Single-hand-operated syringe holder for TechnoSmiles dental practice: identified the clinical need and took it from concept to clinician deployment
Mechanical housing and integration software (ROS, C++, Python) for a portable LiDAR scanning unit
Firmware and a Bluetooth stack (ATmega328P, C++) for Carbonado Backpacks’ connected motorcycle backpack
2021
Futuristic Labs
Smart induction base
Thermal sensing for a connected induction cooking vessel, now sold as CookWithSemi.
Detail
Researched thermal sensor placement and benchmarked performance with Fusion 360 thermal simulations
Firmware integration on STM32; instrumentation in LabVIEW
2018
Nuclear Fuel Complex, Dept. of Atomic Energy
Billet cooling redesign
Redesigned the cooling mechanism for billet manufacturing during fuel-rod-shell production at a Government of India nuclear fuel facility.
Detail
Improved process efficiency by approximately 20%
Saved an estimated 30 man-hours per month while increasing production quality
Academic
2022
MSc thesis · Cranfield with the MTC
Low-latency real-time 3D environment rendering
A real-time 3D rendering architecture for sub-100ms-latency tele-robotic control, carried out in industry collaboration with the Manufacturing Technology Centre.
Detail
Point Cloud Library, OpenGL, OpenNI2 and Qt5 under C++ STL 11/17
TCP/IP and UDP transport, built with CMake, Boost and Eigen3
2022
MSc group project · Best Project, Cranfield and Ocado
Co-architected a PAL TIAGo-based hotel receptionist robot for DoubleTree by Hilton MK and MK 5G. Awarded Best Group Project by Cranfield University and Ocado Technology.
Detail
SLAM-based autonomous navigation on ROS
Computer vision with OpenCV and natural language interaction