Summary
Arvind Pereira is an AI and robotics engineering leader with 11+ years building real-world devices that blend novel hardware, computer vision, and machine learning into production systems. As founder/CTO of Markov/Level and now an AI Engineer at Wayve, he has led end-to-end productization—from garage prototyping to raising over $25M in funding and running small multidisciplinary teams. His background spans embedded firmware and Linux drivers to cloud-based ML pipelines, informed by PhD-level research in autonomous vehicles and decades of fielded marine and AUV systems. He’s pragmatic about reliability and testing, a trait honed by deploying expensive robots in the wild, and enjoys translating academic algorithms into robust, iteratively improving products. Located in San Francisco, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep cross-domain engineering to tackle hard perception and autonomy problems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Gogte Institute of Technology
Dr. T.B. Cunha Higher Secondary School
Sharada Mandir School
Portuguese, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, English