Arun Lakshmanan
Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArun Lakshmanan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working as an ML engineer at Apple in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on foundation models. He combines a deep academic background—a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UIUC—with practical robotics and controls experience from roles at Optimus Ride, Qualcomm Research, and Occipital, where he produced safety-oriented control designs and fast collision-detection algorithms. His research on stability, robustness, and trajectory tracking has led to actionable tools (e.g., Lyapunov-based region synthesis and contraction-theory L1-adaptive control) that bridge theory and deployed systems. Arun has a track record of shipping production-ready software for autonomous systems and leading lab software infrastructure, and he brings a rare mix of formal guarantees and hands-on engineering to ML-driven perception and control problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (77)
proximity10
bolt10
open-hardware10
nano10
roadrunner10
crazyflie10
gradient9
collision-detection9
firmware9
control-flow9
convex9
client-library8
julia8
mixed-models8
interval-arithmetic8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arlk/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 107 pushes, 21 branches in 5 years 1 month
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arlk/minimal-resume
Mar 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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