Headline

Senior AI R&D Engineer @ ValGenesis · Turning IoT + AI into real products for regulated industries · Ex-embedded, now full-stack intelligent systems.

About

I started my career with a soldering iron, not a code editor. As an Electronics & Communication engineer, my first real wins were debugging IoT modules, wiring HVAC sensors, and getting embedded devices to talk to the cloud without dropping packets. That hands-on, "make-it-work-with-your-hands" foundation still shapes how I think. Over 7+ years, I've moved from pure hardware into the space where AI meets physical systems — building IoT platforms with sensor-to-cloud pipelines, deploying them PAN India with zero failure rates, and now leading AI R&D at ValGenesis in the life sciences domain. What I actually do day-to-day: → Build AI-powered applications for pharma validation & compliance → Design IoT architectures (Zigbee, BLE, NB-IoT, Open Thread) → Write code in Python, JavaScript, Embedded C — whatever the problem demands → Performance test with k6, visualize with Grafana, ship things that work The thread through all of it: I take complex systems — sensors, protocols, ML models, regulatory requirements — and turn them into products that real people use in regulated environments. I also speak at colleges and tech events about next-gen AI. If you're building at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI — especially in life sciences — let's talk.

Location

Chennai

AI stack

antigravity

codex

elevenlabs

gemini

grok

openai

Work experience

Senior AI Research And Development Engineer at ValGenesis, Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

IoT Developer at Wynwy Technologies Pvt Ltd, May 2021 - Jan 2022 · 9 mos, IIT Madras research Park, Research, Test and build IoT solutions for Facility services domain • Design and develop IoT platform solutions for sensor to cloud integration with deployment to retail customer PAN INDIA. • Establishing testing procedures in wireless stacks such as Zigbee, BLE and Open Thread • Implemented and tested various sensors on site with zero failure rate • Developed flows for API calls, cloud, and sensor data acquisition • Performed technical designs and implemented sensor devices • Explored newest technologies and shared findings with team

IOT and Embedded Engineer at Confidential, Jan 2021 - May 2021 · 5 mos, Greater Chennai Area, High Level Architecture design in Nb-IOT domain High Level Solution design for Automobile CAN based Camera systems

Embedded Developer at Siqsess, Oct 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, IIT MADRAS RESEARCH PARK, HVAC System and sensor design IoT design Industrial Gateway Application and configuration Research and development in AI and ML analytics in Facility Management Elevator IoT system design and Model prototype testing. Industrial IoT sensors and their configurations with Cloud framework Edge gateway Implementation Azure and AWS based IoT Connectivity applications Quectel BG96 Narrowband IoT with LTE 4G development and testing AGRI - IoT sensor integration and testing Ventilator IoT based device Espressif chip integration and design with testing WLAN, BLE 4.0 communication protocols dependent devices.

Internet of Things Engineer at SCIENCEWISSEN LEARNING MEDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, Jan 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos, Chennai Area, India, Design of Circuit Boards GPS and location based IoT systems LoRa Network, Zigbee related communications and design Microprocessor and Microcontroller applications with SPI, I2C, MODBUS RTU, MQTT, UART, GPRS, PIC16F series controllers. IoT gateways with GPRS and satellite reception LDR and Relay based active IoT devices ATMEGA chips integration and testing Lolin Modules device testing Nvidia Jetson Module configuration and device testing Mx chip Iot Dev module integration and testing Software and Tools used: *Arduino IDE, RaspOs, Processing *MPLAB *PythonIDE, Ruby and perl IDE *Wireshark for Network *Putty *Visual basic Code *LTSPice, PSPICE, MATLAB, XILINX *Simulink *FreeRTOS

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai

HSC, Biology, General, CSI EWART MHSS ANNANAGAR

Public links

github: https://github.com/joshselene