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About

Engineer, builder, systems thinker.

Pinak Ganatra

Pinak Ganatra

Intelligent Systems Design | Embedded Systems & Industrial AI/ML

I build systems that bridge hardware and intelligence — from high-frequency vibration data acquisition on industrial machines to real-time computer vision on drones. My work spans embedded firmware, machine learning pipelines, PLC/SCADA commissioning, and full-stack software.

Currently finishing my B.Eng. in Intelligent Systems Design at Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt while working as a working student in R&D Software at SOMIC. I care about building things that work reliably in the real world, not just in the lab.

Current Focus

Real-time object detection with YOLO for industrial automation, drone-based visual inspection, and edge ML deployment on embedded hardware.

Languages

PythonC/C++C#/.NETJavaSystemCHTML/CSS

Embedded & Hardware

STM32Raspberry PiArduinoUARTSPICANRS485/Modbus

Automation & Industry

Siemens TIA PortalSchneider Machine ExpertPLC-SCADAOCPPNode-RED

ML & Data

PyTorchTensorFlowKerasScikit-learnYOLOCLIP/FAISSPandasNumPy

Infrastructure

GitDockerCI/CDMySQLSQLiteMATLAB/SimulinkLinux

Web

FlaskFastAPIReactBlazor

Projects

Selected work across embedded systems, ML, and software engineering.

Drone FHSS Command Link Testbed

Research testbed for simulating and attacking frequency-hopping drone command links with a 12-attack security toolkit.

PythonAsyncIOUDPHMAC-SHA256Raspberry PiSecurity

Skyview Search

Semantic image search engine for 12,000 aerial landscape images using CLIP embeddings and FAISS vector search.

PythonCLIPFAISSFastAPIPyTorchBLIP

Smartcard-Based Security System

Embedded security system using physical smartcards for micropayments, access control, and encrypted file storage.

PythonSmartcardRSAAESpyscardEmbedded

Phishing Website Detection

ML pipeline comparing 6 models for phishing URL detection, achieving 99.9% test accuracy with Random Forest and MLP.

Pythonscikit-learnXGBoostTensorFlowKeras

Personal Finance Tracker

WPF desktop application for tracking income, expenses, savings goals, assets, and liabilities with visual dashboards.

C#.NET 8WPFMVVMJSON

Experience

Where I've built, shipped, and learned.

Working Student — R&D Software

SOMIC Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG

Nov 2025 – PresentRosenheim, Germany

Building real-time computer vision systems for industrial packaging machinery, from drone-based live feeds to production line analysis.

Project Engineer — PLC-SCADA Commissioning

Triad Ltd. | Luxury Yacht Clelia III

Apr 2026Athens, Greece — Onboard Commissioning

Onboard commissioning of PLC-SCADA automation infrastructure on a 34.95m motor yacht using Siemens TIA Portal.

Bachelor Thesis — R&D Embedded ML

SOMIC Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG

Mar 2025 – Sep 2025Rosenheim, Germany — Thesis Grade: 1.0

Developed a high-frequency vibration data acquisition and ML-based parameter optimization system for industrial packaging machines.

Working Student — Full-Stack Software Development

Kaldewei GmbH & Co. KG

Jul 2024 – Feb 2025Ahlen, Germany

Designed and independently developed a web-based inventory management application from requirements analysis through production deployment.

Intern — Information Systems Engineering / Automated Energy Control

Innocept Mobility

Oct 2023 – Feb 2024Frankfurt, Germany

Developed load management systems for EV charging stations and Raspberry Pi-based energy metering solutions.