Abhilash Chowdhary
Co-Founder & CEO at Crustdata
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbhilash Chowdhary is a founder and engineer with eight years of experience building autonomy, robotics, and web-backed systems from research prototypes to deployed product. As Co-Founder & CEO of Crustdata and a former founding engineer and motion-planning lead at Serve Robotics (spun out of Uber/Postmates), he architected navigation stacks that power real-world sidewalk delivery robots. He pairs deep robotics research—AUV autonomy and online learning from his Virginia Tech work—with product instincts honed leading cross-functional initiatives in autonomy and safety. Comfortable shipping across the stack, he has also applied quantitative thinking to backend systems and trading research early in his career. Based in San Francisco and shaped by IIIT Hyderabad and Y Combinator, he blends entrepreneurial drive with hands-on technical leadership in self-driving systems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
F24 Batch, F24 Batch at Y CombinatorVirginia TechBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad
Github Skills (4)
visualization3
javascript3
react3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vorzawk/SystemConfig_Ubuntu
Dec 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
vorzawk/nnCartoonifier
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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