Summary
Abhilesh Borode is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in maps and navigation for ADAS/AD with 8 years of experience building autonomy stacks spanning perception, sensor fusion, planning and control. Currently at Lucid Motors, he focuses on HD/semantic mapping and navigation solutions for Level 3 autonomy, blending research-grade SLAM and volumetric mapping techniques into production systems. His background includes robotics roles at Burro and research at Colorado School of Mines where he developed real-time depth estimation, 3D dense reconstruction, and obstacle detection for aerial platforms. Proficient in C++, Python, ROS and a broad set of libraries (GTSAM, g2o, OMPL, OpenCV, TensorFlow), he enjoys combining classical robotics algorithms with modern ML to solve hard real-world problems. Notably, he brings cross-disciplinary experience from mechanical engineering to machine learning, enabling pragmatic solutions that bridge simulation and deployment. He’s based in San Francisco and welcomes collaborations on projects at the intersection of mapping, motion planning and perception.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Robotics at Colorado School of Mines
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering at Manipal University Jaipur
English, Hindi, Marathi