Ravi Kant Pandey · Senior Software Systems Architect

Profile

Senior backend and systems engineer with 12+ years building real-time, concurrent software for robot fleets. Hands-on in Elixir, C/C++ and Go, and owner of architecture and technology decisions.

Architected control software for 600+ autonomous robots: motion and path planning (A*, RHCR), navigation, task orchestration.
Hardware-software integration: robot-facing protocols, IPC, sockets, multithreading, Linux system programming.
Led end-to-end design of multiple systems; strong in data structures, algorithms and distributed systems.
Performance and reliability: concurrency, fault tolerance, monitoring, low-latency tuning.

Skills

Languages: C/C++, Elixir, Go, Python
Systems: Linux internals, IPC, sockets, multithreading, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Data and infra: Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, Camunda
Tools: Git, Jira, GDB, Wireshark

Experience

Senior Member Technical Staff, GreyOrange

Mar 2016 – Present

Backend and systems engineering for warehouse robotics. The main work is described under Projects below.

Software Engineer, Techequity Technologies

Sep 2015 – Feb 2016

Designed and built backend APIs and indexing/search features for a video streaming application.

Go
Data structures
Algorithms
NoSQL
AWS
Linux

Software Engineer, Aricent Technologies

Dec 2013 – Sep 2015

Contributed to the LTE Data Link Layer, implementing round-robin and QoS schedulers for efficient data processing in a protocol-driven stack.
Built a logging framework that cut CPU usage from 30% to about 8% per second.

C
IPC
Sockets
Data structures
Linux

Projects

Sorter

Warehouse robotics control system

Architected and built the backend control layer coordinating 600+ autonomous robots concurrently under real-time constraints.
Designed the movement, navigation, task-scheduling and business-logic modules, and the IPC, socket and message-queue communication between them.
Optimised the in-memory database layer, improving concurrent reads of critical sections by about 10%.

Elixir
C
IPC
Sockets
Message queues
Linux

Inventory Management System

Multi-warehouse platform

Led design of a multi-warehouse platform handling thousands of items across distributed nodes, with APIs and service modules integrating robotic picking and sorter systems.
Built consistency checks and monitoring for accurate real-time state across nodes under high-load order processing.

Elixir
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Redis
Postgres

Barcode Decoding Solution

High-rate sensor data pipeline

Parallelised decoding of 10 Gbps image streams to reach under 500 ms decoding throughput.
Improved multithreaded decoding efficiency by 2–3% while cutting CPU load by about 25%.

C
IPC
Multithreading
Linux internals

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, KIIT University

2009 – 2013

GPA 8.1/10

Recognition

Best Technical Performance Annual Award, GreyOrange Robotics
Excellence Award (Team), LTE Layer 2 Product, Aricent
Best Performance Award, Aricent

Writing

Notes on C, Linux, Go and debugging at systemgenes.com.