OPEN TO SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND ROBOTICS ROLES
Robotics · Automated Driving

SHRIKANTWAGHULE

Systems & AI Integration Engineer

I love owning and turning complex engineering systems into clean, easy & testable interfaces & solutions. From automotive HMI and requirements engineering to ROS2, Autoware and autonomous driving systems.

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Shrikant Waghule
SYSTEMS ENGINEER / 2026
SW-001
2.5+
YEARS
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
1.4M
WORDS VALIDATED WITH 80% FASTER
& 100% PRE-RELEASE VERIFICATION ACROSS 36 LANGUAGES
50%
HMI RELEASE COST
REDUCTION
01
GRANTED
INDIAN PATENT
PROFILE

Systems level
thinking.

Engineering for me is not only about writing, debugging and learning new implementations of code. It is about understanding how the pieces interact, how it can be scaled in future, how it can be debugged block by block and adapted to future updates easily, defining the contract between them and making the result verifiable.

Systems-oriented engineer with ~2.5 years in automotive HMI and UX Design at Daimler Truck Innovation Centre, now working in robotics and automated driving (ROS 2, Autoware and CARLA) after graduate coursework in Automation and Robotics at TU Dortmund.

I enjoy the unglamorous core of engineering: deriving requirements, evaluating trade-offs and working through hard problems with a team. Automating small processes and most importantly reducing any kind of possible errors throughout the implementation.

My instinct is to take the risk of something tangled (a warning database at risk of loss, overflow bugs hiding in 36 languages, or a full autonomy stack) and reverse-engineer it into structure someone else can build on.

Most recently I co-led the software-stack workpackage on a teleoperated autonomous driving platform, authoring the interface architecture that served as the team's system-level contract.

Requirements-first
Trade-off driven
Reverse-engineers systems
Fast to learn new stacks
Documents the contract
Cross-functional collaboration
EXPERIENCE

Scope,
growing.

From a single mechanism to a full autonomy stack. Scroll to trace how each step widened the system I worked on.

EXPERIENCE TRACE SCOPE · MECHANISM 01 / 07
AUG 2017 – MAY 2022 · PUNE, INDIA

Integrated M.Tech., Mechatronics and Automation Engineering

MIT-ADT University

Five-year integrated Bachelor’s and Master’s programme. Graduated with 2nd rank.

BACHELOR’S THESIS · ATV–DRONE ↗
2019 – 2021 · DD ROBOCON

Vice-Captain and Mechanical Design Lead

Team Volta · DD Robocon national robotics competition

Led mechanical design across a 30-member student team; owned mechanism selection, kinematic calculations and design verification.

TEAM PHOTOS ↗
FEB 2022 – JUL 2022 · BENGALURU, INDIA

Intern, Mechatronics

Daimler Truck Innovation Center

Supported electronic control unit (ECU) analysis, integration testing, diagnostics and homologation (type-approval) documentation for the multi-language display-text workflow.

M.TECH THESIS · OVERFLOW CHECKER ↗
JUL 2022 – SEP 2024 · BENGALURU, INDIA

Systems Engineer (Human machine interface)

Daimler Truck Innovation Center
  • Performed the feature analysis for every HMI feature jointly with the design, development and testing teams – from concept through implementation to test.
  • Owned the system requirement specifications for infotainment and driver-assistance display functions in IBM DOORS and DOORS Next Generation, keeping every requirement traceable from customer request to test case.
  • Produced the warning sounds and spoken warnings adopted into a prototype vehicle build.
  • Assessed the feasibility of vehicle-to-vehicle use cases – truck platooning and wireless charging for future vehicle programmes.
  • Cut database export time by about 80% and removed a paid tool dependency.
FUSO DATABASE MIGRATION ↗
OCT 2024 – ONGOING · DORTMUND, GERMANY

M.Sc. Automation and Robotics

TU Dortmund University

Coursework: automated driving, 3D computer vision, mobile robots, cognitive systems, ROS 2, mobile radio networks.

MAR 2026 – SEP 2026 · TU DORTMUND

Teleoperated Autonomous Driving Platform

Master’s Project · 1/10-scale autonomous vehicle (F1TENTH class) · ROS 2 Jazzy, Autoware, CARLA simulator

One of two engineers on the software stack of a six-person project: mapped the Autoware pipeline (sensing, localisation, perception, planning, control, vehicle interface) onto the team’s work split, owned the CARLA-to-Autoware bridge, and authored the interface specification the team built to.

CASE STUDY ↗AUTOWARE BACKPROPAGATOR ↗
TODAY · DORTMUND, GERMANY

Open to systems engineering and robotics roles

Availability: Immediately (ab sofort)

Currently: independent research on NLOS pedestrian perception (paper in preparation).

NLOS PROJECT ↗ EMAIL ↗ LINKEDIN ↗ GITHUB ↗
SELECTED WORK

Engineering
in practice.

Projects where systems thinking, reverse engineering and measurable outcomes mattered more than the title.

NOW
? NLOS VEHICLE LINE OF SIGHT

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) Pedestrian Perception

Developing a method to detect pedestrians hidden from the vehicle's line of sight, before they enter the field of view of on-board sensors; method details withheld until publication.

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH · PAPER IN PREPARATION
In progress
October 2026 – Present
PYTHONROS 2AUTOWARE UNIVERSECARLA
DETAILS AFTER PUBLICATION
01
Teleoperated Autonomous Driving Platform system layout

Teleoperated Autonomous Driving Platform

Co-leading the software-stack workpackage in a 6-person team. Authored the interface architecture document covering cross-container ROS2 topics, QoS profiles and coordinate-frame conversion specifications.

SYSTEM-LEVEL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE
March 2026 – Sept 2026
ROS2 JAZZYAUTOWARECARLADOCKERF1TENTH
02

HMI Localization QA Tool

Built a Python tool to check HMI strings against UI bounding boxes across approximately 1.4 million words and 36 languages, catching overflow issues before release.

RELEASE COST REDUCED BY 50%
2022 – 2024 (Master's Thesis)
PYTHONHMIAUTOMOTIVE
03

FUSO Warning Database Migration

When IBM DOORS was discontinued, the warning database was at risk. Self-learned SQL, migrated the database to MS Access and reverse-engineered the export format with no additional process updates and costs within 2 months.

EXPORT TIME REDUCED BY 80% · PAID TOOL DEPENDENCY REMOVED
2022 – 2024
SQLMS ACCESSDOORS
04
Multi-Bit Hand Drill Mechanism (Patent)

Multi-Bit Hand Drill Mechanism

Designed and fabricated a multi-bit holder enabling quick manual interchange of six drill bits, integrated into a 12W rechargeable hand drill.

INDIAN PATENT NO. 477335
2019
PTC CREOFABRICATIONPATENT
05

Integrated ATV–Drone with Gesture Control

Designed and modeled an integrated ATV–drone in PTC Creo focused on aerodynamics and structural efficiency, integrating sensors, controllers and gesture-recognition modules for navigation and obstacle avoidance.

2021 (Bachelor’s Thesis)
PTC CREOGESTURE CONTROL
06

Autoware Backpropagator Architecture & Diagnostics Viewer

Reads the Autoware source and draws its message and diagnostic architecture as a navigable graph, so an engineer can trace a single signal chain – such as the minimum-risk manoeuvre that brings the vehicle to a safe stop – end to end.

155 NODES · 284 TOPICS MAPPED (AUTOWARE 1.9.0) · AI-ASSISTED, SELF-ARCHITECTED
2026 – Sept 2026
ROS2 JAZZYAUTOWARECARLAPYTHON
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Featured System

Autonomy Pipeline

Completed - Sept 2026
01
SENSING
02
LOCALIZATION
03
PERCEPTION
04
PLANNING
05
CONTROL
06
VEHICLE IF

Mapping the Autoware pipeline onto the team's software work-split and defining the interfaces between containers, nodes, topics, QoS profiles and coordinate frames.

STACK

Tools I
work with.

A combination of software, robotics, systems engineering and mechanical design.

Programming

PythonMATLABSQLC++ (basic)

Robotics

ROS2AutowareCARLADockerVisual SLAM

Requirements

IBM DOORS / DNGSRS AuthoringDerivation & TraceabilityInterface Specification

CAD / Simulation

PTC CreoSolidWorksANSYS

Tooling

GitGitHubGitLabLinux

Languages

English · C1German · B1Hindi · C1Marathi · C1

Leadership

Team Lead30-member teamMentoring

Systems

ArchitectureInterfacesVerificationValidationISO 26262ISO 21448 / SOTIF
ISO 26262 / SOTIF: working knowledge
RECOGNITION

Evidence
of impact.

AWARD
Best Process Innovation Award
Daimler Truck Innovation Centre
PATENT
Indian Patent No. 477335: Multi-bit Hand Drill
Granted 2023
COPYRIGHT
Three Indian copyrights registered
Diary no. 2564 / 2570 / 2559 · 2021-CO/L
PRESS
Featured in The Times of India
Coverage of the guest-felicitation robot built by the team at MIT-ADT, with photo
READ ARTICLE ↗
LEAD
Vice-Captain, Team Volta, DD Robocon
Led mechanical design across a 30-member interdisciplinary team
BEYOND

Off the
clock.

What keeps me curious when I'm not deriving requirements.

Astronomy

Stargazing and deep-sky objects, from planets to nebulae.

Cars

Engineering, design and motorsport, where machines meet speed.

Photography

Capturing the two above. The gallery here is my own work.

Podcasts

Long-form talks on tech, science and engineering keep me learning.

Creative writing

Putting ideas into words with the same clarity I aim for in a spec.

MY PUBLICATIONThe Systems of Self
READ ON SUBSTACK ↗
Open to Systems Engineering Roles

Let's build something verifiable.

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