Tarun Sharma
Founder & CEO @ Twinity Labs · ex-JLR · IIT Kanpur
I build at the crossroads of mechanical engineering, software, and AI. From redesigning railway suspensions adopted by Indian Railways, to architecting software-defined vehicle platforms at JLR, to shipping an AI-powered fitness app end-to-end, to now building Digital Twin solutions at Twinity Labs — I'm drawn to problems that live at the intersection of fields.
At a glance.
I like to think a few decades ahead. I'm drawn to spacetech and energy — the fields I believe will define what humanity becomes next — and I see robotics and AI as the fastest path up the Kardashev scale toward a Type I civilization. That same curiosity spills into philosophy and social dynamics, and how they rhyme with the laws that govern everything else. I'm just as drawn to business — the most powerful lever I know for turning these ideas into maximal social impact at scale. Closer to home, I'm fascinated by the human mind and fitness — there's a quiet joy in lifting weights and watching effort compound over time. When I step away from all that, my weekends lean toward football, badminton, and swimming, with tennis, shooting, horse riding, and surfing waiting patiently on the bucket list. And to unwind, you'll find me cooking something new or wandering off into the countryside for the quiet.
Where I've built things.
A career spanning mechanical R&D, automotive software, AI/ML, and deep-tech entrepreneurship.
General Manager — MKS Enterprises
Leading operations for a heavy crane business serving major industrial and public-sector clients. Overseeing sales, AMC, spare parts supply, and on-ground operator training.
Founder & CEO — Twinity Labs
Building an applied Digital Twin solutions venture with LLM-powered tooling. Shipping AI-native products end-to-end — from Flutter apps with Claude/GPT integration to AWS serverless backends.
twinitylabs.com ↗Senior SWE — Software-Defined Vehicles — Jaguar Land Rover
Zero-downtime migration of 450+ repos. Platform-agnostic CI/CD. Open-source IaC stack (OpenTofu, BuildBarn, Lorry).
Innovation Champion — Open Innovation Hub — Jaguar Land Rover
Led Digital Twin push with IndusTANTRA. Cross-functional innovation via Plug and Play startup collaborations.
SWE — Software-Defined Vehicles — Jaguar Land Rover
Presented to Boards of JLR & Tata Motors. Led OS/BSP bring-up. Built deterministic platform services. AWS boot observability pipeline. ASIL-B certification leadership.
SWE — Global Testing Platform — Jaguar Land Rover
Python Test Executable Generator. FastAPI microservice for GCP state. 300+ test assets across dSPACE/Vector/NI.
Graduate Trainee — Jaguar Land Rover
Predictive maintenance (LSTM, spectrograms). VR/XR demos for the Board. Audio-ML pipelines. Patent pending.
Project Engineer — IIT Kanpur
MagRail prototype for Hyper Poland (Nevomo). Problem statement and solution framing under Prof. N.S. Vyas.
Summer Intern — ETA Technology
Hydrostatic bearing design (60,000 kgf), friction welding machine components, failure analysis.
Summer Intern — R&D, Tata Steel
Tensile specimen modelling in Abaqus. Results contributed to new specimen design for automotive applications.
The Neural Path
A chronological journey through the chapters.
General Manager
- Heavy crane trading & services business
- Serving major industrial & public-sector enterprises
- Sales, AMC, spare parts & operator training
Founder & CEO
- Applied Digital Twin solutions venture
- Product vision, GTM, industrial partnerships
Graduate Trainee → Senior SWE
- Software-Defined Vehicles platform
- Global Testing Platform
- Innovation Champion — Open Innovation Hub
- Predictive maintenance research (LSTM, patent pending)
B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree
- Railway bogie redesign adopted by Indian Railways
- Electromagnetic actuator development
- President, Association of Mechanical Engineers
Things I've made.
Side projects, apps, and academic work from IIT Kanpur and beyond.
SetMind — AI-Powered Strength Training App
Full-stack fitness app with AI coaching (Claude/GPT), offline-first sync, and cloud infrastructure. Built end-to-end from Flutter frontend to AWS backend.
twinitylabs.com/setmind ↗Primary Suspension Redesign of Railway Bogie for Improved Fatigue Life
Redesigned FIAT type LHB bogie suspensions. Design improvements accepted by Indian Railways for production rollout.
Design & Development of an Electromagnetic Actuator
Built 1st-gen compact Moving Iron Type actuator for active damping. Peak force ~13N in 30–140 Hz range.
Railway Vehicle Dynamics: Multi-Body Analytical Approach
Lateral/longitudinal dynamics modelling. Simpack rail-wheel pair, ANSYS APDL beam-with-moving-load.
Structure Integrated Sensors & Actuators for Machine Tool Deformance
Tuned Mass Damped Boring Bar design. Modal testing with CutPro. Chatter elimination optimization.
FEA of Railway Couplers in LHB Coaches
FE models for Frontier Technologies. ANSYS analysis under Buff, Draft & Bending loads. Anti-climbing simulation at 45 tonnes.
Motion Planning of a 6 DOF Robot Arm Manipulator
C-Space computation, A* path planning, Rapidly Exploring Random Trees for mobile robot.
Helicopter Coupled Trim Analysis — UH-60A Black Hawk
BEMT numerical solution, Newmark's algorithm for flap response, free flight coupled trim analysis.
Output Feedback Stabilisation of Inverted Pendulum
Implemented research paper on stabilization with uncertainties. Extended High Gain Observers.
Document Shredder & Automated Box Shifting Mechanism
SolidWorks/AutoCAD modelling, CNC-fabricated prototypes, business plan & marketing brochure.
Deep Learning Specialization Projects
deeplearning.ai on Coursera — Neural Style Transfer (VGG-19), Car Detection (YOLO), Face Recognition (FaceNet), DNNs for binary classification.
Research
Primary suspension failure analysis in FIAT type LHB bogies and life estimation
What I work with.
Software & DevOps
AI Tools & LLMs
AI / ML
Cloud & Infrastructure
Mechanical & Simulation
Beyond the code.
Teaching
- TA — Engineering Graphics (TA101A), IIT Kanpur: 100+ first-year UG students under Prof. Anupam Saxena & Prof. Bharat Lohani
- TA — Advanced Mechanics of Solids (ME321A), IIT Kanpur: 100+ junior UG students under Prof. Ishan Sharma
President, Association of Mechanical Engineers
- Led 15-member team managing interactions between 700+ students and 45+ faculties
- Sole incharge of 1.5 Lacs budget for yearlong workshops and Research Scholars' Day
- Organized MathWorks & Ansys training sessions for the department
Awards
Interactive gaze controlled HUDs (Jul 2021). Teams from all 6 GDD centers worldwide.
Nationwide top scorer in Mathematics at ISC, 2015 — Loyola School, Jamshedpur.
Qualified for admission to IITs.
Where it started.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree, Mechanical Engineering
2015 – 2020Loyola School, Jamshedpur
Mathematics & Computer Science
2002 – 2015"Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference." — Daniel Kahneman