Nalin Angrish
SDE Intern @ NavaEx-Research Intern @ IISc (RBCCPS)ME '27 @ IIT Ropar

Nalin Angrish

Bengaluru / Rupnagar, IndiaOpen to high-impact systems engineering

Systems software built close to the metal, with zero room for failure.

I build low-latency distributed systems, autonomous cloud and datacenter operations platforms, and real-time robotics stacks. Currently SDE Intern at Nava (autonomous cloud/datacenter ops) and pursuing Mechanical Engineering at IIT Ropar.

Live Engineer Profile
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Current PositionMay 2026 - Present

SDE Intern

Nava • Autonomous Cloud & Datacenter Ops (Go, Python)

Research BackgroundMay 2025 - July 2025

Research Intern

RBCCPS, IISc Bengaluru • FOCAS Lab (Dr. Pushpak Jagtap)

Education2023 - 2027

B.Tech Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar • GPA: 7.51/10

Production Toolchain
C++GoPythonLinux IPCDockerKubernetesgRPCROS2CUDA/NVMLsystemd
github.com/Nalin-AngrishView GitHub
Interactive Shell

Developer Terminal

A functional virtual environment. Run standard commands like ls, cat, and cd with Tab-completion and command history.

nalin@iit-ropar: ~ (bash)

Linux nalin-thinkpad 6.10.4-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC x86_64

Welcome to Nalin Angrish's interactive terminal. Type 'help' for available commands.

Quick tip: try 'ls', 'cat skills.txt', 'cd experience', or 'nava'.

nalin@iit-ropar:~$
Quick run:
Verified Professional Experience

Work Experience & Research

Direct technical impact across autonomous cloud infrastructure, cyber-physical robotics research, and competitive aerial systems.

SDE Intern

NavaPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Core intelligence platform for autonomous cloud and datacenter operations management – Go, Python, Distributed Systems

May 2026 - Present

Engineering the intelligence platform for autonomous cloud and datacenter operations — deterministic retrieval, agentic reasoning, and GPU-optimal inference.

  • Built Atlas, a topology-aware graph DB with hybrid Graph-RAG fed by Brain plugin ingestors (AWS, Nava Cloud). Replaced probabilistic LLM traversal (multiple tool calls) with deterministic retrieval without LLM, cutting lookup from ≥5s to <200 ms and token cost to zero.
  • Created Cortex, an OpenCode-style agentic reasoning harness for Brain grounded in live Atlas context, with a plugin system for unified action across AWS, Nava Cloud, Sunbird DCIM and the Optimality Engine via a single tool registry and typed contracts.
  • Developed Optimality Engine, an in-house GPU-cluster simulator for LLM inference predicting cost & performance across hardware and vLLM/SGLang configs in ~10s per simulation at >96% accuracy (SWE-Bench, SemiAnalysis InferenceX, etc.), with orchestration to sweep 1M+ configs and recommend optimal hardware/runtime in <1 minute.
  • Built observability pipelines streaming and correlating metrics, logs and events from AWS/Nava Cloud and datacenter operations into Atlas/Brain for topology-aware RCA and auto-remediation.
GoPythongRPCGraph-RAGAtlasCortexDistributed SystemsvLLMSGLang

Research Intern

Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBCCPS), IISc Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Formal Control and Autonomous Systems (FOCAS) Lab – Dr. Pushpak Jagtap – C++, Python, ROS2

May 2025 - July 2025

Built and validated a distributed real-time control stack for indoor multi-UAV coordination on a physical 3-drone swarm.

  • Constructed a distributed real-time control stack for indoor multi-UAV coordination with motion-capture-based localization on ROS2 (Raspberry Pi) interfaced with Pixhawk via MAVLink, with 50Hz sensor fusion and sub-5ms deterministic inter-node latency.
  • Implemented Control Barrier Function (CBF) safety layer for dynamic geofencing and inter-agent collision avoidance, enabling provably safe concurrent transitions with zero violations in time-varying environments.
C++PythonROS2Control Barrier FunctionsMAVLinkPixhawkRaspberry Pi

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar

Rupnagar, Punjab

Cumulative GPA: 7.51 / 10.0 • Focus on Robotics, Control Systems & Embedded Systems

2023 – 2027

Undergraduate engineering curriculum emphasizing multi-rotor dynamics, state estimation, autonomous navigation, and high-performance computing.

  • Secretary, Aeromodelling Club, IIT Ropar (May 2025 – May 2026): Leading multi-rotor UAV design, telemetry integrations, and pilot training.
  • Deputy Contingent Leader, Inter IIT Tech Meet 14.0 (Aug 2025 – Dec 2025): Spearheaded campus technical delegations across aerospace and robotics problem statements.
  • Representative, Software Community (SoftCom), IIT Ropar (Apr 2024 – Apr 2025): Mentored student developers in systems programming and open-source stacks.
IIT RoparAeromodellingRoboticsControl TheoryKinematics

Competitive Engineering & Delegations

Inter IIT Tech Meets (National Technical Benchmark)

IIT Patna, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras

Aerospace, Aerial Robotics & System Engineering Competitions

2023 – 2025

Represented IIT Ropar in competitive multi-disciplinary engineering challenges, securing national recognition in aerial robotics and computational modeling.

  • Inter IIT 14.0 (IIT Patna, 2025): Secured 10th Rank in Aerial Robotics (Drona Aviation) by devising an algorithmic sensor filter in C++.
  • Inter IIT 14.0 (IIT Patna, 2025): Aerospace Design (LAT Aerospace) — Modelled Python optimization & automation framework for large-scale OpenFOAM runs.
  • Inter IIT 13.0 (IIT Bombay, 2024): Aerial Robotics (IdeaForge) — Implemented real-time C++ rotor-failure detection algorithm integrated into PX4 firmware.
  • Inter IIT 12.0 (IIT Madras, 2023): Secured 7th Rank in Product Development (Trumio) — Built React frontend & Django API workflows.
Inter IITPX4 FirmwareOpenFOAMC++Aerial Robotics

Engineering Background

Building for Resilience Under Pressure

Systems software engineer working across autonomous cloud platforms, GPU runtime memory enforcement, and provably safe drone swarm coordination.

Engineering Profile

I build systems software — the kind that sits close to the metal and has no room for failure. I care about the architectural decisions that don't show up in the diff but determine whether a system holds together under real-world load.

Currently, I'm an SDE Intern at Nava, building the intelligence platform for autonomous cloud and datacenter operations. My work centers on Atlas (topology-aware graph DB with hybrid Graph-RAG via Brain ingestors for AWS/Nava Cloud — deterministic retrieval ≥5s to <200 ms, token cost 0), Cortex (OpenCode-style agentic harness grounded in live Atlas context with typed tool registry across AWS/Nava Cloud/Sunbird DCIM/Optimality Engine), and the Optimality Engine(GPU-cluster simulator for vLLM/SGLang — ~10s/sim at >96% accuracy, orchestrating 1M+ config sweeps in <1 min), plus observability pipelines for topology-aware RCA and auto-remediation.

Previously, as a Research Intern at IISc Bengaluru (Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, FOCAS Lab under Dr. Pushpak Jagtap), I constructed and validated a distributed real-time control stack for indoor multi-UAV coordination with motion-capture-based localization on ROS2/Raspberry Pi via MAVLink (50Hz fusion, sub-5ms deterministic latency) and a CBF safety layer for dynamic geofencing and inter-agent collision avoidance with zero violations in time-varying environments.

I also study Mechanical Engineering at IIT Ropar('23–'27), where I serve as Secretary of the Aeromodelling Club and Deputy Contingent Leader for Inter IIT Tech Meet 14.0.

Autonomous Cloud & Datacenter Ops

At Nava, built Atlas (hybrid Graph-RAG via Brain ingestors — ≥5s to <200 ms, token cost 0), Cortex (OpenCode-style agentic harness), and Optimality Engine (~10s/sim, >96% accuracy, sweeps 1M+ configs in <1 min).

Formal Robotics Control & Swarms

At IISc Bengaluru (RBCCPS FOCAS Lab), built distributed real-time C++/ROS2 control stack with motion-capture localization (50Hz, sub-5ms) and CBFs for provably safe concurrent transitions with zero violations.

Low-Level Systems & GPU Daemons

Built GPUMan in C++ over Unix Domain Sockets with NVML polling to enforce per-process VRAM limits without hardware MIG, preventing system-wide CUDA OOMs in shared compute environments.

Fault-Tolerant Flight & State Estimation

Engineered qLPV proportional-integral observers for quadrotors detecting motor loss in ~417ms with geometric tracking on SE(3) relinquishing yaw for stable post-failure hover.

Nalin Angrish

Systems & Robotics

Nalin Angrish

SDE Intern @ Nava • Ex-IISc RBCCPS • IIT Ropar '27

Academics

IIT Ropar

B.Tech Mechanical (GPA: 7.51/10)

Leadership

Aeromodelling Secretary

Deputy Leader, Inter IIT 14.0

Verified Technical Stack

Core Competencies & Technologies

Technologies deployed across autonomous cloud/datacenter ops at Nava, research at IISc Bengaluru, and C++ systems.

Systems & Infrastructure: Linux runtime internals, low-level daemons, and GPU memory management.

C++

Primary

Multi-threaded daemons, NVML polling, Unix domain sockets, Eigen3 vectorization

Go (Golang)

Core

gRPC streaming pipelines, distributed services, concurrent goroutines (Nava)

Linux & Unix IPC

OS

Process lifetimes, signal handling (SIGTERM), POSIX sockets, systemd services

CUDA & NVML

Compute

Per-process VRAM inspection, memory limit enforcement, GPU telemetry

Docker & Kubernetes

Containers

Multi-stage images, container isolation, pod management, deployment specs

AWS & GCP

Cloud

AWS (EC2, S3), GCP (GCE, GKE), cloud automation via Model Context Protocol

Primary Programming Languages
C++C++17/20, Daemons, NVML, Eigen3
GogRPC, Concurrency, Microservices
PythonFastAPI, PyTorch, Scripting
BashLinux Automation, systemd
JavaScriptNext.js, React, Node