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CliveRodrigues.

Clive Rodrigues

Autonomous-driving engineer bridging mechanical design, robotics and AI automation — building hardware that ships.

National robotics award
0stNational robotics award
Autonomous driving
M.EngAutonomous driving
Years in R&D
0+Years in R&D
The stack

In the garage · 3D

Built to be driven.

Drag to orbit. Recolour it, explode the layers, or flip to the blueprint.

A real-time WebGL build (React Three Fiber) — a working demo of the 3D / CAD-visualisation work I do, not a product.

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About

I build the machines — and the machines that build them.

A mechanical engineer pursuing a Master's in Autonomous Driving at Hochschule Coburg. I've taken export-grade electric ATVs through R&D and homologation, won a national robotics award, and now generate the CAD data that trains mechanical AI — while building agents that automate the engineering itself.

CurrentlyM.Eng Autonomous Driving at Hochschule Coburg · CAD-for-AI contractor at Mecado · Coburg, Germany

National robotics award
0stNational robotics award
Autonomous driving
M.EngAutonomous driving
Years in R&D
0+Years in R&D
Faster via AI automation
0×Faster via AI automation
Autonomous SystemsMechanical DesignRoboticsAI AutomationEV / Automotive

Affiliations & certifications

  • Mecado
  • Powerland EV
  • NVIDIA-certified (ROS)
  • Hochschule Coburg
  • Don Bosco CoE
Focus

What I work on.

Where mechanical hardware, autonomy and AI meet — end to end.

  • Autonomous Systems

    Sensor fusion, localisation & mapping, motion planning and V2X — the core of my M.Eng at Hochschule Coburg.

  • Mechanical Design & CAD

    Design, homologation and DFM for EV and automotive hardware, from concept models to manufacturing.

  • AI-Driven Automation

    Agentic workflows and NXOpen scripts that delete the repetitive parts of engineering — not just speed them up.

  • Robotics

    UAV and mobile-robot design with ROS and NVIDIA tooling — award-winning hardware that ships.

CAD & Mechanical

Siemens NXSolidWorksFusion 360NXOpenDFM3D Printing

Autonomy & Robotics

ROSSensor FusionSLAMMotion PlanningV2XNVIDIA Robotics

AI & Automation

Generative AIClaude AgentsPythonChatGPTDigital Twins
Projects

Selected work.

From award-winning UAVs to export-grade EVs and agentic CAD automation.

Robotics · Award-winning2023

Coconut-Harvesting UAV

Designed and built an unmanned aerial vehicle to harvest coconuts — 1st place at National Technix 2023 against engineering colleges across India. Team of 5, Don Bosco College of Engineering.

UAVEmbeddedMechanical Design
Details
Powerland Electric ATV
Automotive R&D2022 – 25

Powerland Electric ATV

Design and homologation R&D on one of the world's fastest electric ATVs — winch mounts, body panels and chassis redesign. 90%+ of units export to the US and Europe.

SolidWorksHomologationDFM
powerlandatv.com
Mecado2026

Digital-Twin Data for Mechanical AI

Producing foundation-scale CAD and digital-twin data — parametric assemblies with full feature trees — that trains the next generation of mechanical AI.

Siemens NXDigital TwinAI Data
mecado.com
AI Automation2025 – 26

Agentic CAD Automation

Built NXOpen automations plus an autonomous agent that scans Siemens NX tasks and advances them 24/7 — turning multi-day CAD chores into 30-second background jobs.

NXOpenClaudePython
Write-up
Experience

Where I've built.

1st Place — National Technix 2023 · Coconut-harvesting UAV · Don Bosco College of Engineering · 2023

Mechanical CAD Contractor

Mecado

United States · Remote

Jan 2026 – Apr 2026

  • Produce digital-twin CAD data that trains foundation-scale mechanical AI.
  • Model and annotate parametric assemblies with complete feature trees.

Design Homologation Engineer

Powerland Agro Tractor Vehicles

Goa, India · R&D

Oct 2023 – Jul 2025

  • Drove design and homologation R&D for export-grade electric ATVs bound for the US and EU.
  • Owned CAD for structural and body components through to manufacturing.

Design Intern

Powerland Agro Tractor Vehicles

Verna, Goa

Aug 2022 – Nov 2022

  • Modelled winch mounts, body panels and a chassis redesign for a new ATV in SolidWorks.
  • Learned manufacturing technologies and precision tooling hands-on.

Intern

Bolt IoT

Goa, India

Feb 2020 – May 2021

  • Hands-on with IoT hardware, embedded prototyping and automation.
Credentials

Education & certifications.

Education

M.Eng — Autonomous Driving

Hochschule Coburg — University of Applied Sciences

Autonomous systems · AI · sensor data · SLAM · V2X · motion planning

In progress

B.E. — Engineering

Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda

Artificial Intelligence · C programming · robotics

Higher Secondary — Mathematics & Computer Science

Loyola, Goa

Languages

English — Full professionalGerman — A1 (learning)French

Certifications

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  • Robotics and ROS-2 workflows — mechanical and industrial design, electronics, IoT and AI, including an agile mobile robot inspired by Boston Dynamics.

    ROS-2RoboticsSimulationAI

Point of view

Robotaxis are ultimately a data business disguised as a mobility service. Every mile driven feeds edge cases and failure modes back into the system — the company that closes the loop fastest, from data collection to deployment, builds the strongest moat.

Clive Rodrigues

on the economics of autonomy

The other craft · web design

I also build websites that sell.

When I'm not engineering autonomous hardware, I run a small studio — the same systems rigour, applied to the web. Fast, conversion-focused e-commerce & brand sites for growing DTC businesses: fewer checkout drop-offs, higher average order value.

See web-design services

01

Full E-commerce Stores

A fast, conversion-first store — product pages, collections, CMS and checkout optimizations. Design, front-end build and merchant setup so you sell from day one.

02

Conversion Optimization

Redesign product pages and checkout flows to cut drop-off — clear hierarchy, persuasive microcopy and simplified options that lift purchase rate and AOV.

03

Brand & Visual Design

Brand-led homepages and product presentation that build trust — photography guidance, layout systems and component libraries.

Contact

Let's build
something autonomous.

Open to engineering roles across autonomous systems, mechanical design and AI automation — email or LinkedIn is fastest.

Open to

  • Autonomous-systems & perception engineering
  • Mechanical design / CAD & homologation
  • AI automation & agentic tooling for engineering
  • EU · US · remote — M.Eng wrapping up at Coburg