Praveen Patel Coach Praveen is Senior Vice President, Technology at the American Institute of Architects (AIA), in charge of AIA's Information Technology and Computer Systems. He has 25+ years of software, cloud, architecture, security, program and team management experience. He coached 2 FLL teams (RoboDolphins and RoboSapiens) and 2 FTC teams (Distractors.exe and NewT.exe) and has been connected to FIRST programs for the past 6 years.
Mahender Chaitankar Coach Mahender is Sr. Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience. He has coached FLL Jr. team, mentored 2 FLL teams and has been a Cub Scout den leader for 4 years.
Mentors:
Pankaj Oberoi Mr. Oberoi, Ph.D. is a Vice President at a local biotech company where he has worked in various roles including heading the R&D organization, Scientific Support, and Field Applications Support for over 19 years. He is the lead coach of all .exe teams.
Seelig Sinton
Mr. Sinton, holds a Masters degree in electrical engineering and has worked for many years as a radar systems engineer. Seelig currently works at Palantir Technologies.
Serguei Sviatyi Mr. Sviatyi, works on Network Administration and large Network Architecture, Server Administration, Systems Architecture, and much more. In his free time he’s a tinker and does a lot of CAD, Hardware and Mechanical Engineering, and Automotive repair. He also mentors a number of FTC teams.
Priya Gupta Mrs. Gupta is a Technical lead at Marriott International. She has coached a FLL team for 3 years and has mentored multiple FLL and FTC teams. She is an Electronics and Telecom engineer with more than 15 years of experience in Software Engineering