Dania

Designed and manufactured a custom test bench PCB to support electronic hardware validation.

Customized

ArduPilot firmware to implement custom flight modes, log custom data, and integrate onboard sensors. Designed and integrated custom MAVLink packets within the firmware structure to expand communication and telemetry capabilities.

Designer Engineer - NaqCoDE Technologies

(2024-07)

• Designed and manufactured a custom test bench PCB to support electronic hardware validation.
• Customized ArduPilot firmware to implement custom flight modes, log custom data, and integrate onboard sensors.
• Designed and integrated custom MAVLink packets within the firmware structure to expand communication and telemetry capabilities.
• Conducted live flight test operations, including pre-flight avionics verification, telemetry data monitoring, and post-flight diagnostic log reviews.
• Performed Hardware-in-the-Loop testing and Software-in-the-Loop simulations to validate modifications and firmware stability prior to physical deployment.
• Integrated Commercial off-the-shelf subsystems and optical vision seekers with the Flight Control Computer using Mavlink and Lua scripting.
• Designed and tested a custom test bench PCB for an engine test bench.

Embedded Systems Designer - QuickGen Technologies

(2024-01 - 2024-05)

• Conducted thorough testing of a PCB prototype for a mushroom chamber, utilizing a Particle Photon microcontroller to ensure accurate switching functionality.
• Integrated a MEMS microphone with an ESP LyraT using the I2S protocol and ESP-ADF (Audio Development Framework), enabling audio data storage on a laptop and transmission to a HTTP server.
• Developed a translator bot leveraging NLP, Python, Speech-to-Text (STT), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies, capable of recognizing and translating messages between Urdu and English.
• Developed an end-to-end audio pipeline, interfacing a MEMS microphone with ESP32-LyraT over I2S protocol, streaming raw data via HTTP over Wi-Fi.

Technical Supervisor / Team Lead - NUST Robotics and Automation

(2022-11 - 2024-05)

• Supervised the Embedded Systems, IoT, UAV, and UGV subteams to ensure alignment on project deliverables and execution.
• Led the research and development of a custom payload-carrying hexacopter, managing a team of 15+ members.

Bachelor of Science - Mechatronics Engineering - NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (2020 - 2024)