ANTONY AUSTIN

Engineer · Builder · Creator

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Journey

Timeline

A chronological view of my path through engineering, startups, and research.

2026

PCM Research Thesis

Began M.Tech-level research thesis on electrothermal simulation of Phase Change Memory (PCM) devices in COMSOL Multiphysics at RSET.

project

Noviq — Web & AI Studio

Founded Noviq, a web development studio in Kochi building websites, Flutter apps, and AI-powered chatbots for local businesses.

organization
2025

Firmware Developer — ASAT (US Startup)

Remote firmware internship developing BLE Peripheral firmware on nRF5340 DK using Zephyr RTOS and nRF Connect SDK.

experience

VirtusCo — Co-founder & CTO

Co-founded VirtusCo to build Virtus, an autonomous B2B airport luggage porter robot. Built full ROS 2 Jazzy stack from scratch on RPi 5. IEDC incubated.

organization

Freelance ROS 2 Developer — Fiverr

Started providing ROS 2 package development and code review services to international clients on Fiverr.

experience

Award of Appreciation — RSET

Recognised for contributions to the Robo-Based Mobile Sensing System for Indoor Air Flow Measurement (KULIRMA Fan project).

award

MAP-NEO: 253M Parameter LLM

Built and trained a 253M-parameter transformer from scratch using RMSNorm, RoPE, SwiGLU, and Flash Attention on RTX 5070. Published on HuggingFace.

project

Apptronics Event Coordinator

Coordinating science and technology events at RSET's Apptronics technical fest.

organization

Engineer Intern — Roots Industries

Industrial exposure to end-to-end manufacturing workflows at Roots Industries India Limited, Coimbatore.

experience
2024

Podium Finish — Electric ATV Competition

Competed against 12 colleges at Saintgits College; showcased expertise in embedded systems and motor control.

award

Industrial Trainee — KEALCO

Assembled, wound, and tested high-voltage step-down power transformers at Kerala Electrical and Allied Engineering Co.

experience
2023

Started B.Tech at RSET

Began Bachelor of Technology in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology.

education

Freelance Web Developer

Started developing responsive production websites using Next.js for international clients including Yehi (Australia) and VirtusCo.

experience

Higher Secondary Completion

Completed Higher Secondary Education with specialization in Electronics, C, C++, and Python at Model Technical HSS.

education
2021

Top Performer — K.I.T.E. Training

Top performer in technical training and educational initiatives under Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education.

award
2019

Head of Electronics Club (2019–2023)

Led three batches of 15 students in electronics and embedded systems projects over 4 years at Model Technical HSS.

organization

Robotics Intern — Srishti Robotics

Foundational embedded systems internship: Arduino, ESP8266/ESP32, sensors, IoT frameworks. Recognised as Best Performer.

experience