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Pulkit Kumar

Education

Manipal Institute of Technology

2023 - 2027

B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Experience

Founding Engineer @ Fettle

2025 - Present

  • Architected distributed voice AI agents for high-concurrency hospital customer experience.
  • Implemented SIP trunking with LiveKit and optimized real-time inference using PyTorch & TorchRec.
  • Owned the entire DevOps lifecycle, deploying scalable backends with FastAPI and Kubernetes.

System Engineer @ SolarMobil

2024 - Present

  • Engineered a high-performance race strategy engine for solar EVs.
  • Developed low-level drivers for Arm Cortex M7-based ECUs and implemented FreeRTOS for deterministic scheduling.
  • Built a real-time digital twin integrating weather APIs and GIS elevation data using InfluxDB and Grafana.

Founder @ Guaq AI

2024 - Present

  • Built agentic solutions for hospitality, real estate, and finance, scaling to 6+ clients with ~$8K MRR in 6 months.
  • Automated lead generation, content creation, and compliance workflows utilizing large language models.

Research & Publications

  • Technical validation of a multimodal emotion-adaptive biofeedback system for autonomic regulation
    Scientific Reports (Springer Nature, Q1) — Deployed multimodal edge AI pipeline using LSTM + transformer encoders on Jetson/ESP32 platforms.
  • Physics-Informed Stochastic Receding Horizon Control for Autonomous Energy Management in Solar Racing
    IEEE VTC (A*) — Leveraged stochastic receding horizon control for SoC optimization.
  • Patents Filed
    Adaptive EV Interface, Long-Range Telemetry for Solar EVs, and Automated Robotic Solar Cleaning (2025).

Technical Skills

  • Languages: C/C++, Python, TypeScript, Verilog, Java
  • Embedded & Hardware: STM32, FreeRTOS, Arm Cortex, FPGA (Vivado), ASIC Flow, UVM
  • AI & Inference: PyTorch, Agentic AI, DSP, LiveKit, Edge AI
  • Cloud & DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, FastAPI, AWS, InfluxDB