Ammar Kothari
Senior Robotics Software Engineer at Glacier
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAmmar Kothari is a Senior Robotics Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building reliable, fielded robotic systems that drive product performance and revenue. He has taken robots from prototype to production—leading motor upgrades for 20% performance gains, hardening software to sustain 99%+ fleet uptime, and retrofitting vehicles for autonomous operation across domestic and international deployments. Comfortable across software and hardware domains, Ammar designs CI-backed test pipelines, sensor interfaces, and provisioning workflows that accelerate feature rollout and reduce developer friction. He has repeatedly translated customer feedback into high-value priorities, mentored junior engineers, and spearheaded hardware program launches that enabled scaled fleet deployment. Notably, his work blends hands-on field support with systems-level improvements—from IMU/GPS calibration to build and log system optimization—making him effective at both rapid troubleshooting and long-term reliability engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree, Robotics, Master's degree, Robotics at Oregon State University
Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AmmarKothari/GeneralTests
Nov 2017 - Mar 2024
Random Things that I try out
Contributions:35 PRs, 116 pushes, 28 branches in 6 years 5 months
AmmarKothari/ROB537_Project
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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