KBT Vega is the student aerospace club at MVPS’s KBT College of Engineering. This initiative was born out of boredom, just as a hobby project - to try amateur rocketry. From there, it has now grown into a student club with a grand mission - to build and launch student built satellites into orbit. I am one of the founding members, and I worked as the Technical Lead (basically Deputy Director), specifically leading the development of payload firmware and the avionics bay. The current project is to build a CanSat to study environmental effects on bird populations.

NxtQube builds fully autonomous Drone Docking Stations, enabling missions at remote sites enabling surveillance, monitoring, and inspection of critical infrastructure. Here, I developed and tested embedded firmware for dock peripherals in Python and C++, and was assigned maintenance of legacy docks and firmware. Testing precision landing at night (low light conditions, I mean) was the best part.

The Kapse Paithani TRace(KPTR) was built in collaboration with Kapse Paithani, India’s largest Paithani manufacturer. We built an end-to-end traceability platform to ensure authenticity of the Paithani sarees, cultivate transparency in the entire process, and highlight stories of the artisans. Learning about the entire Paithani crafting process and hearing the deeply personal stories of the artisans made this project special.

This project was also recognized by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at BharatTex 2025.