Ashish Raste
Localization Technical Lead
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAshish Raste is a hands-on engineering leader with 13 years’ experience designing and delivering autonomy, navigation, and embedded software for marine and industrial robotics. Currently the Localization Technical Lead at Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division, he has led autonomy stacks and teams for long-endurance AUVs, multi-robot warehouse systems, and mine-site ADAS, blending research rigour with product delivery. He is fluent across C/C++, Python and Rust, with deep experience in ROS, embedded Linux, simulation-in-the-loop testing, and cloud-integrated command-and-control systems. Ashish has repeatedly translated prototypes into fielded systems—shipping commercial AUVs and IIoT platforms that met operational safety and remote-deployment constraints. Known for building and mentoring multidisciplinary teams, he pairs technical roadmaps with pragmatic risk mitigation to meet offshore and remote operational needs. Based in Perth with an academic foundation from NUS and practical nanodegree training in autonomous driving, he brings both academic depth and production chops to GNSS-denied localization challenges.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research AcademySelf Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityMasters in Computing Computer Science, Masters in Computing Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Chinese
Github Skills (41)
kernel-module10
robotics-simulation10
simulation9
linux9
firewall9
ros9
tensoflow8
tableplus8
autopilot7
mavlink7
robotics7
robot7
drones7
pid-controller6
localization6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ashishraste/ashishraste.github.io
May 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:94 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
ashishraste/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Apr 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 7 months
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