Summary
Aravind Sundaresan is a full‑stack software engineer based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building 0-to-1 products and scaling systems at startups and high-growth companies. He has shipped production software across domains including autonomous vehicles (Cruise), genomics diagnostics (GRAIL), fintech/property tech (Valon), and consumer platforms through internships at Instagram, Twitter, Uber, and Palantir. Comfortable across the stack, Aravind blends pragmatic product sensibility with deep engineering practices learned at both research-heavy and production-first teams. He’s experienced in rapid prototyping and taking features from concept to launch under tight timelines, and thrives in cross-functional environments. Having worked repeatedly in mission-driven engineering orgs, he brings a pattern of shipping reliable, maintainable systems while iterating quickly. Colleagues find his background useful for connecting domain knowledge (from diagnostics to autonomy) to practical engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
Irvington High School
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign