Akshay Shankar
Software Engineer at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Shankar is a software engineer at Google with eight years of experience bridging firmware, controls, and software for aerospace and robotics applications. He holds a 4.0 BS in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford focused on mechatronics, controls, and vehicle dynamics. His background spans firmware development at Fossil, academic roles teaching sensors and numerical methods, and applied aerospace internships, giving him deep practical experience across embedded systems and control theory. He is currently exploring autonomous driving, medical robotics, UAVs, and aircraft control, combining industry software practices with research-grade modeling techniques. An often-overlooked thread in his profile is his physics research experience using tensor network techniques for Bose–Einstein condensates, reflecting strong mathematical and simulation skills beyond typical software engineering. Based in Palo Alto, he balances technical work with creative interests like singing, TV critique, and soccer, which he cites as sources of insight and resilience.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at Texas A&M UniversityMaster’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9/4.0, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9/4.0 at Stanford University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
gdextension10
simulations9
physics9
experiment8
mps8
simulation8
science7
julia7
javascript6
react5
math5
css5
godot5
game-engine4
nintendo4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IISERM/schedule-selector
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Simple webpage to select specific courses and construct a personalized schedule for the semester.
Contributions:45 commits, 4 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 3 months
webpagereactcssjavascriptsemester
IISERM/egg-paratha
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Computational Discussion something. IDK what these Phi@I people do all the time.
Contributions:26 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
idkcomputationalphi
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