Palak Agarwal

Operate and monitor robotic arms, maintaining hardware components, performing hardware troubleshooting, and replacing targeted mechanical parts to maximize operational uptime. Interface with specialized UI software to control robotic arm teleoperation, validate system telemetry, and streamline real-time task execution. Generate, log, and curate high-quality datasets for robotic training pipelines through structured hardware execution and sensor data collection.

Robotics Assistant - CoBot - Seattle, WA

(2026-08)

• Operate and monitor robotic arms, maintaining hardware components, performing hardware troubleshooting, and replacing targeted mechanical parts to maximize operational uptime.
• Interface with specialized UI software to control robotic arm teleoperation, validate system telemetry, and streamline real-time task execution.
• Generate, log, and curate high-quality datasets for robotic training pipelines through structured hardware execution and sensor data collection.

Full Stack Developer and Intern Lead - Quadrant - Redmond, WA

(2025-06 - 2025-09)

• Led a team of 9 full-stack interns as intern lead, managing sprints and delivering 15 production-ready features for a cloud-based employee management web app with role-based access control, bcrypt-encrypted passwords, and Azure SQL Database integration.
• Built and deployed full-stack solutions using React, Python, Azure App Services, REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps workflows, contributing 40+ hours of coding per week while optimizing backend performance and database queries.
• Integrated AI capabilities by implementing a RAG pipeline with Azure Foundry's vector database, developing two AI-driven features — automated employee profile summaries and AI-powered job recommendations.

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer Science - University of Washington (2024-08 - 2027-06)