AI/ML & GenAI Leader | AI Data Center SME for Google Cloud, Azure, AWS | Data Science | DevOps | Cybersecurity | Robotics | Embedded Systems | NLP & Computer Vision | ADAS, SDV
From Weekend Flying to Cloud-Scale Thinking — Fixed-Wing Autonomy Meets GPU Simulation Last weekend’s “fun at the RC airfield” turned into something much bigger — a live experiment in AI-driven autonomy and GPU cloud simulation. I built and flight-tested a fixed-wing autonomous drone that flies without GPS, powered entirely by Visual SLAM and onboard AI inference running on a Jetson Orin. The aircraft perceives, maps, and self-corrects in real time — no satellite, no remote controller (I still have one just in case!) , just edge compute and algorithms doing their thing. But here’s the twist — all of the AI models, mapping logic, and flight profiles were trained, simulated, and stress-tested on Azure NC-series virtual GPUs (NVIDIA A10 v5) before deployment (If it was not a personal project I could do that on Parry's fully managed virtual work bench with GPU! which handles most of the provisioning automatically). That means I could run Isaac Sim and SLAM pipelines in a cloud GPU environment, validate flight scenarios, and push containerized models back down to the Jetson — a complete edge-to-cloud feedback loop from my home lab. 💡 Weekend Project Highlights: 🧠 Jetson Orin + TensorRT for onboard inference ☁️ Azure vGPU (A10 v5) for AI model training + simulation 🧭 Visual SLAM & AI perception stack (ROS 2 + Isaac SDK) 🚀 Fixed-wing platform tuned for GPS-denied flight autonomy 🔄 Real-time synchronization between cloud and physical flight tests This is kind of R&D — where edge devices meet GPU clouds, and a “weekend build” doubles as a live demo of scalable AI architecture. Projects like this remind me why I love working at the intersection of AI infrastructure, GPU systems, and autonomy — Thank you NVIDIA for building Jetson family of edge AI, Now we can build at global scale. #AIInfrastructure #EdgeAI #JetsonOrin #VisualSLAM #VirtualGPU #Azure #IsaacSim #NVIDIA #AutonomousSystems #WeekendEngineering #GPUComputing #MLOps #CloudArchitecture #PassionProject
