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Saral Tayal

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About

About Me

Hey, I'm Saral. I'm an engineer currently tinkering away on robots and building electric racecars while studying ECE at Carnegie Mellon University

I started my journey in the maker movement at the age of 12 in Singapore. I've always been fueled by my passion for engaging in hardcore engineering and sharing that passion with more people. In accord, I've spent the last 10 years doing everything from building award-winning inventions and apps, starting my own Computer Science education company featured by the government of Singapore, speaking at tech conventions, and even judging a robotics competition on national television

Stick around and see some of the cool projects I've worked on!

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Colorlib Template
Colorlib Template
Colorlib Template
Colorlib Template

Projects

My Projects

Various inventions, hacks, robots, and apps I've worked on

Rover 1: Personal Assistant Robot

Robotics, ML, CV, NLP, Mechatronics

App: NewsFriend

Heroku, NLP, ML, Web-Scraping

Floating Smart Mirror

NLP, IOT, Human Computer Interaction

Automated Tool-Change Module

3D Printing, Automation

Block-Chain

Web & Mobile app development, Flutter, Firebase

Current Projects

Water@here

75%

A mobile app to help runners, bikers, and the general public easily find water and toilet points closest to their location.

Built on Flutter and Firestore, the app uses GeoCoding to lazy-load results for a faster experience.

Traction Control

10%

A dynamic 4WD traction control system for CMR's 2021 FSAE electic car.

The final traction control system will also utlize toqrue stearing and active aerodynamics on top of traditional stability control.

Self Driving

15%

A project to replicate certain self-driving features on my car using only RGB cameras

I'm buidling ML regressors and robotics models to enable self-driving features on my car such as lane-keep, localization, route-planning etc

Resume

My Resume

Download Resume PDF

Education

2019-2023

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

Experience

September 2017-Present

Founder/CEO

TinkerSpark: Online CS and Robotics School

Taught over 4100 students from 133 countries through my online CS, robotics, and electronics courses.

Featured by the Singaporean government for the CodeSG initiative and got my curriculum accredited by Microsoft MakeCode.

Created a YouTube crash-course series with 220,000 viewers and Instructables project-blog with 320,000 views.

June 2015-September 2015

3D printer design and R&D intern

QwikFab

Assembled and helped design "Beast 2.0" 3D printer for National University Singapore, RedHat Linux, and AStar.

Engaged in R&D of 3D Printing technologies such as heater cores, digital stepper controllers, multi-extruders etc.

Skills

Software
Altium
Fusion360
Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom
DaVinchi Resolve
Heroku
Firebase
Programming Languages
Python
Flutter/Dart
C
Matlab
Frameworks & Libraries
TensorFlow
Numpy
Pandas
FastAPI
OpenCV
Rapid Prototyping
Raspberry Pi
Arduino
3D printing
Laser Cutting
Manual Mills
Manual Lathe

Certifications

Coursera, 2020

Deep Learning

Coursera, 2020

Reinforcement Learning

Achivements

Capital One, 2020

Best Financial Hack (TartanHacks hackathon)

Panopto, 2020

Customer Focus Award (TartanHacks hackathon)

Amazon & Instructables Voice Activated Challenge, 2018

Grand Prize Winner

Let's get in touch

I'm always enthusiastic about opportunities ranging from hardcore engineering to empowering the next generation of makers and innovators!