Purav Datta

Work

Finished projects and open ideas, each marked with where it stands today.

Live data from a moving race carA redundant WLAN and LTE telemetry system that gives Formula Electric engineers a live view of the car during test sessions.Texas A&M Formula ElectricIteratingFinding speed before the car turns a wheelA scalable vehicle simulation tool for lap-time optimization, compared against real track telemetry.Texas A&M Formula ElectricIterating155 people. 13 teams. One car.As project manager, led about 155 engineers and business members through the design, build, testing, and competition of a fully electric race car.Texas A&M Formula ElectricCompetedLogging every test sessionData logging integrated with CAN communications and telemetry, with automated session control.Texas A&M Formula ElectricImplementedModeling tire behavior from test dataFitting and analysis approaches for Magic Formula tire models using Tire Test Consortium data.Texas A&M Formula ElectricIn analysisAn 80 kW motor test benchElectrical integration for a lab test bench that handles about 80 kW, used to test and tune the drivetrain outside the car.Texas A&M Formula ElectricOperationalConnecting the whole carCAN communications and electrical integration connecting controls, battery management, motor control, telemetry, and logging.Texas A&M Formula ElectricImplementedBattery and accumulator engineeringContributions to high-voltage integration and analysis of cells, accumulator layouts, and thermal limits.Texas A&M Formula ElectricIn analysisA robot ranked #3 in the worldAs captain and lead software developer, led a 10-member robotics team to #3 of more than 6,000 teams worldwide.Electro RoboticsAwardedA fan controller with no microcontrollerA purely analog and discrete-logic design that maps a 0 to 5 V temperature input to a 12 V, four-wire PWM fan output.Design challengeDesign completeSetup in minutes, not hoursA centralized configuration service for Azure Functions that cut development environment setup from hours to minutes.EControlsShippedUploads about 40% fasterRedesigned file-upload handling for large IoT data transfers, reducing upload times by about 40%.EControlsShippedMachine learning and product designBuilt components of an unsupervised machine-learning algorithm and owned UX for the next major version of a core product.RoutineAIShippedA small business, found on GoogleDesigned and built a business website from scratch and ran the SEO behind a leading Google listing.On Course Riding AcademyDeliveredAn AI budget for 1,600+ licensesModeled FY27 enterprise AI-tool spending across 24 business units and more than 1,600 software licenses.Hewlett Packard EnterpriseDeliveredAutomation and executive scorecardsSharePoint and Power Apps workflows for AI license requests, plus Power BI scorecards for leadership.Hewlett Packard EnterpriseDeliveredSightlineA product concept for an AI search and intelligence layer over large image and video libraries.Product conceptConceptProoflineA product concept for managing sponsorship obligations and verifying that sponsors received what was promised.Product conceptConceptStewardA product concept for AI-assisted software infrastructure operations on Linux servers and Git repositories.Product conceptConcept