# Pranav Yerramaneni

> Computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz (B.S. expected June 2028) and legged-robot research at the HARE Lab, in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz, California. Firmware and robotics: a PPO walking policy for a quadruped, the Rokx robot at Nova Robotics, CometKits robotics kits for elementary schools, a reaction-wheel humanoid and the Formula Slug vehicle control unit. Open to firmware, robotics and applied-ML internships for summer 2027.

The site is one continuous page: a live control-loop demo, then a slideshow per role or project with the technical details as captions. Everything on it is in the full-text file below; the other links are the primary sources behind it.

## Site

- [Full text of the site, Markdown](https://devmello.xyz/llms-full.txt): roles and projects, skills, education, videos, contact. Start here.
- [Agent page, HTML](https://devmello.xyz/ai/): the same text as a plain web page without scripts or slideshows.
- [Home page, HTML](https://devmello.xyz/): the human version, with a live reaction-wheel pendulum demo and the slideshows.

## Primary sources

- [GitHub, devmello](https://github.com/devmello): 43 public repositories.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranav-yerr/): roles, education and endorsements.
- [Blog](https://blog.devmello.xyz/): notes on projects and how they went.
- [CometKits](https://kits.devmello.xyz/): the robotics-kit program he co-founded for elementary schools.
- [Formula Slug](https://formulaslug.com/): the UCSC Formula SAE Electric team whose vehicle control unit firmware he works on.
- [Voyager documentation](https://voyager.devmello.xyz/): the pathfinding library he maintains for FTC robots.

## Optional

- [Nova Robotics](https://www.novarobotics.us/): employer, firmware engineer intern, February 2025 to March 2026.
- [Wilcox Robotics, FTC team 8872](https://wilcox-robotics-team.com/): the FIRST Tech Challenge team he co-captained.
- [Go2 walking demo, HTML](https://devmello.xyz/demo/quadruped/): the quadruped locomotion policy running live in MuJoCo WebAssembly; drive it with the keyboard.
- [Humanoid balance video, MP4](https://devmello.xyz/videos/nova-humanoid.mp4): 10 seconds, the dual-reaction-wheel biped balancing on one leg.
- [FTC robot video, MP4](https://devmello.xyz/videos/ftc-robot.mp4): 31 seconds, the 2024-25 season robot on the practice field.
- [Rokx photo](https://devmello.xyz/photos/rokx-1.webp): the robot he worked on at Nova Robotics.

Contact: pranav@devmello.xyz. Last updated 2026-09-24.