Rev 2.0/ Cary, NC/ Open to internships + research _

Hardware person
who ships software.

I'm Sohum, a rising junior at NCSSM Durham and co-founder of Tremora, a wearable Parkinson's tremor tracker my team pitches in Atlanta this summer. I design PCBs in KiCad and write firmware for ESP32s, and when I'm waiting on parts to arrive I ship web apps. Three of them are live right now.

Now Prepping the Tremora pitch for Atlanta · Interning at a defense technology company (details under NDA) · Building Oreo, an AI companion quadruped

Projects

SHT 1 · Both sides of the stack
Software / Game Live
Beat Roulette

Multiplayer music game where friends guess songs against each other in real time, with synced lyrics on screen while the track plays.

Next.js · PartyKit · Supabase · Deezer · LRCLIB beatroulette.app
Software / Game Live
Boil the Ocean

Say corporate jargon into your mic and rack up points while an AI roasts you for it. Whisper handles transcription and Grok handles the roasting.

Whisper · Grok API · Web Audio boiltheocean.vercel.app/
Software / Civic Live
Provide NC

Food access tool mapping government benefit locations across North Carolina, so families find the resources near them without digging through agency sites.

Maps · Public data provide-nc.org
Hardware / Robotics Built
CV Soldering Gantry

Gantry robot soldering PCB pins on its own. OpenCV finds each pin and planar homography maps camera pixels to board coordinates, landing within 1.2mm on live boards.

OpenCV · Python · CNC gantry · Homography
Hardware / Robotics In progress
Oreo

AI companion quadruped built on the Sesame platform. Hardware is ordered and firmware is in progress, with voice interaction as the core loop.

Sesame · Quadruped · Voice AI
Hardware / Robotics Built
Truss Inspection Bot

ESP32 robot climbing steel warehouse trusses on magnetic mecanum wheels, carrying a thermal sensor to flag hot spots in structural steel.

ESP32 · Mecanum drive · Thermal sensing · Magnetics
Hardware / Competition 1st · Impact Award
FTC Robot

CAD and build co-lead. Designed the spindexer and outtake from first sketch through competition assembly, with a drivetrain tuned for torque under match stress.

Onshape · Drivetrain · FTC
Software / iOS Built
Renoq

Native iOS voice capture. Speak once and it routes the note to your calendar or notes automatically, using time words in what you said to pick the destination.

Swift · CloudKit · Speech routing
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Awards

SHT 2 · National + international
3rd Science Bowl National finals National
1st FTC Impact Award FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics
Nationalist US National Chemistry Olympiad Top 1000 in the US National
Semifinalist US Biology Olympiad National National
5th You Be The Chemist National National
Top 100 Physics Brawl International International
Qualifier DECA Nationals Business + entrepreneurship Business

Experience

SHT 3
Startup / Co-founder
Tremora
2026 to present

I lead hardware for a wearable Parkinson's tremor monitor, owning PCB design, electrical systems, and CAD on a four person team. We pitch in Atlanta this summer.

Internship
Advanced Weapons Systems, Inc.
Summer 2026

Engineering intern at a defense technology company, working on sensor-based hardware systems. Project details are under NDA.

Robotics
FTC Robotics Team
2025 to 2026

CAD and build co-lead. Took the spindexer and outtake system from design through competition assembly, and the team won the Impact Award, 1st place.

Leadership
Science Club President
2025 to 2026

Ran a 40+ member club with weekly meetings, growing membership 20% through hands-on workshops and mentoring newer members through their first projects.

HardwareKiCad·Onshape·ESP32·Embedded C·3D printing (Bambu A1)
SoftwarePython·OpenCV·TypeScript·Next.js·Supabase·Swift

Let's build
something real.

Open to internships, research positions, and hard engineering problems. I reply fast.

GitHub github.com/sohumvajaria
Location Cary, NC