Summary
Adarsh Ponaka is an embedded software engineer with 8 years of experience building robotics, wearables, and consumer electronics systems at the intersection of hardware and software. Currently contributing to humanoid robotics at Figure after internships at Apple and X (Everyday Robots), he has hands-on experience in motor controllers, sensor drivers, speech stack engineering, and precision sound-based localization. His work helped improve robot speech accuracy used in Google Research demos and spans vehicle control systems to consumer mobile apps, showing versatility across real-time embedded stacks and user-facing software. Based in Palo Alto and trained at the University of Michigan (B.S.E and M.S.E in Computer Engineering/CS), he thrives in high-learning-rate environments and seeks roles that push innovation in robotics and societal-impact applications.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering - B.S.E Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering - B.S.E Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at William Mason High School