[
	{
		"role": "Undergraduate Research Assistant, CREATE Lab",
		"organization": "College of Engineering and Computing",
		"school": "George Mason University",
		"period": "May 2026 – Present",
		"highlights": [
			"Built Astroswarm, a visual coding game that turns swarm control into a playable simulator, generating trial data at scale on which algorithms best defend a target.",
			"Researching swarm robotics in Python and ROS for a research program on controlling robot fleets with one operator."
		],
		"tech": ["Python", "ROS", "Swarm Robotics"],
		"links": [
			{ "label": "Profile", "url": "https://create.autonomousrobotics.club/team/gagan-manjunatha" },
			{ "label": "Astroswarm", "url": "https://astroswarm.autonomousrobotics.club/" },
			{ "label": "GMU CEC News", "url": "https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2026-07/new-art-herding-robots" }
		]
	},
	{
		"role": "AI Summer Camp Instructor",
		"organization": "ACCESS Academy",
		"period": "Jul 2026 – Aug 2026",
		"highlights": [
			"Taught the robotics section of an AI camp for 60 rising 9th to 12th graders, guiding teams to build robot kits and design algorithms that autonomously navigated a maze."
		],
		"tech": ["Robotics", "Teaching"],
		"links": [{ "label": "Program", "url": "https://accessacademy.cehd.gmu.edu/ai-summer-camp" }]
	},
	{
		"role": "Team Lead, RAVC Team",
		"organization": "Raytheon Autonomous Vehicle Competition (RAVC)",
		"period": "Dec 2025 – May 2026",
		"highlights": [
			"Beat four competing universities including Virginia Tech.",
			"Led development of an autonomous system in Python and ROS2, enabling a UAV to scout and land on a moving UGV in an environment without GPS, validated against ArUco marker detection in Gazebo simulation."
		],
		"tech": ["Python", "ROS2", "Gazebo", "Computer Vision"],
		"awards": ["1st Place Overall Winner"],
		"links": [
			{ "label": "GMU News", "url": "https://www.gmu.edu/news/2026-05/george-mason-students-fly-first-place-no-gps-no-grade-and-almost-no-problems" },
			{ "label": "Video", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9QkS8nLYy0" }
		]
	},
	{
		"role": "QA Automation Intern",
		"organization": "Deltek",
		"employmentType": "Internship · Hybrid",
		"period": "Jun 2025 – Aug 2025",
		"highlights": [
			"Designed a workflow integrating AI into the QA automation pipeline for the GovWin IQ team.",
			"Researched Model Context Protocol servers, publishing a public Selenium MCP package to NPM for agentic browser automation."
		],
		"tech": ["AI", "TypeScript", "Selenium", "MCP"],
		"links": [{ "label": "NPM Package", "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sirblob/mcp-selenium" }]
	}
]