Engineer by instinct. CEO by necessity. Innovator by obsession. 500+ projects delivered. 99.8% first-pass rate. Idea to production-ready hardware in 60 days. One relentless question: what if this could actually work?
A thinker without a problem is just a philosopher. Here's the one that wouldn't let me sleep.
Electronics engineer from Osmania University. Master's in Supply Chain & Logistics from Curtin University, Australia — where I studied how products actually move from factory to the world. I spent years in Singapore learning operations and partnerships at scale before returning to India with a question that wouldn't leave me alone: why do brilliant hardware ideas keep dying between prototype and production?
So I built Rapid Circuitry. As an innovator, I'm teaching machines to design circuit boards. As a problem solver, I own the full stack — schematic through compliance. As a CEO, I've scaled that into 500+ projects shipped on compressed timelines. The engineer in me still reviews every critical trace. The Ashoka Changemaker in me picks the projects where hardware changes lives — not just margins.
Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. Let me show you what thinking looks like when it becomes real.
Three real case studies. End-to-end ownership. Here's what it looks like when the thinker, engineer, and CEO are the same person.
Built the operating system for Hyscend's hydrogen-powered drone fleet — mission planning, H₂ fuel intelligence, real-time MQTT telemetry, YOLOv8 inspection AI across solar, pipeline, and border verticals, plus full DGCA/NPNT regulatory compliance. End-to-end. One platform.
NestWatch — real-time clinical dashboard for neonatal ICUs. 14 AI/ML decision-support pipelines (sepsis, NEC, ROP, discharge readiness), HL7 FHIR R4 interoperability, HIPAA RBAC with Break-the-Glass override, and edge VLM on Jetson Orin. Built to IEC 62304 and FDA 21 CFR 820.
Production-grade CMMS for manufacturers who can't afford downtime. Multi-tenant architecture, real-time IoT telemetry ingestion, offline-first PWA for field technicians, RBAC across 5 roles, and full work-order lifecycle from creation to compliance reporting.
Aerospace, critical care, medtech, IoT, and enterprise software — each built end-to-end from schematic to deployed product.
Hydrogen drone fleet operating system for Hyscend. Mission planning, H₂ fuel telemetry, YOLOv8 inspection AI, and DGCA/NPNT regulatory compliance in one platform.
NICU clinical intelligence platform. 14 AI/ML decision-support pipelines, HL7 FHIR R4 interoperability, HIPAA RBAC, and edge VLM on Jetson Orin. Regulatory-grade.
Extracts HR, SpO₂, NIBP, Temp, RR from live NICU monitor feeds using YOLO + PaddleOCR. Runs on Jetson Orin and Mac via CoreML acceleration.
Enterprise maintenance SaaS for sterilization equipment manufacturers. Multi-tenant, offline-first PWA for field technicians, IoT telemetry ingestion.
Real-time IoT monitoring on 100% live MQTT streams — 6-axis IMU, temperature, pressure, and battery across dynamically-discovered device fleets.
AI-powered respiratory health monitoring app. Continuous breathing pattern tracking, personalized insights, and clinical-grade daily check-ins for iOS and Android.
Production cardiac wearable firmware v5.6. BLE sensor fusion, real-time ECG/SpO₂ acquisition, ultra-low-power RTOS architecture, and robust OTA update system.
CEO-level visibility across hardware operations — projects, resources, financials, and supply chain in a single internal platform for 10–50 person electronics teams.
AI-powered bed sore prevention system. MediaPipe pose estimation tracks patient position in real-time, enforces 2-hour repositioning protocols, and logs nurse SOP compliance with full audit trail.
AI voice journaling smart ring on Seeed XIAO nRF52840 Sense. PDM microphone captures voice, streams audio over BLE, with ultra-low-power management for all-day wear.
Production-ready multi-tenant cloud education management system. Covers admissions, academics, attendance, finance, and compliance — 85% test coverage, certified production-ready.
Neonatal and pediatric vitals monitoring dashboard with real-time data visualization, clinical alert thresholds, and backend microservices for hospital bedside deployment.
Official production firmware for clinical ECG patch using ST VAFE6AX biopotential sensor. Multi-lead ECG acquisition, IMU fusion, and real-time signal processing for wearable cardiac monitoring.
Medical device management application — equipment dashboard, consumable supply ordering, sensor lifecycle tracking, staff training modules, and support ticket management.
Native iOS pet tracking application built in Swift. Real-time GPS location, activity monitoring, health logging, and companion app for the CaroPet hardware tracker device.
Every innovator has a lens. These four ideas shape how I see every problem that crosses my desk.
I don't start with what exists — I start with what should exist. Every project begins with a question: what's the actual constraint? Not the assumed one, the real one. Strip away convention, challenge the datasheet, rethink the architecture. The best solutions come from thinking deeper, not faster.
I'm building AI tools that compress weeks of PCB layout into hours. Trace routing, component placement, design rule checks — machines handle the grunt work so engineers focus on architecture. This isn't incremental improvement. It's rethinking how hardware gets designed from the ground up.
Real problems don't respect boundaries. A PCB without firmware is copper. Firmware without connectivity is isolated. I solve end-to-end — sensor to cloud, edge to dashboard, device to fleet. When you own every layer, you can fix anything. That's how every project ships without finger-pointing.
Wearable monitors catching cardiac events in rural clinics. LoRa sensors cutting water waste on farms. Radar tracking vitals without touching skin. I design for 45°C warehouses, not air-conditioned labs. Production-first. DFM-baked. Every trace reviewed by hand. The engineer in me refuses to ship anything I wouldn't trust with my own life.
A CEO's job is to turn vision into capability. Here's the craft behind the company.
Six disciplines. One mind connecting them. From concept to production — no handoffs, no gaps, no excuses.
Multi-layer layouts optimized for signal integrity, thermal performance, and manufacturability. AI-assisted placement and routing for faster turnaround than any traditional design house. I deliver production-ready Gerbers, not just pretty schematics.
STM32, ESP32, nRF52, and custom SoCs. RTOS, bare-metal, or embedded Linux — whatever the application demands. BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRa, LTE-M, NB-IoT. Code that survives in the field, not just the lab.
Complete device-to-cloud architecture. Sensor integration, gateway design, OTA update systems, real-time monitoring dashboards, and fleet management. Industrial-grade reliability meets consumer-grade simplicity.
Remote patient monitoring, wearable vital-sign sensors, and radar-based contactless health tracking. Designed for regulatory compliance (CE, BIS) and real-world deployment in hospitals and rural clinics alike.
GPS + LoRa + cellular trackers for logistics, agriculture, and fleet management. Ultra-low-power designs that run for years on a single charge. Built for Indian summers and Himalayan winters.
On-device machine learning for computer vision, anomaly detection, spectral sensing, and predictive maintenance. Intelligence that runs at the edge — no cloud dependency, no latency, no compromise.
You've seen the thinker, the engineer, and the innovator. Now meet the person behind it all.
The harder the problem, the more interested I am. Whether you need an engineer's hands, a thinker's perspective, or a CEO who can take your idea from sketch to scale — let's talk. No pitch deck required.
Rapid Circuitry (Caropet Technologies Pvt Ltd) is a Hyderabad-based embedded hardware company offering custom PCB design, embedded firmware development, and end-to-end IoT product development. We help startups and enterprises bring connected products from concept to production.
Aditya Chilka is a tech entrepreneur, AI innovator, product builder, and business leader. He is the Founder of Rapid Circuitry, known for pioneering AI-driven PCB design tools and delivering 500+ hardware projects with a 99.8% first-pass yield across medical devices, industrial IoT, and asset tracking.
Microcontrollers including ESP32, STM32, and nRF52. Connectivity via LoRa, BLE, Wi-Fi, LTE-M, and NB-IoT. Platforms include RTOS, bare-metal, and embedded Linux. Specialties include radar sensing, edge AI inference, TinyML, and multi-layer PCB design.