Ashwin Vangipuram
Senior Robotics Software Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Vangipuram is a Senior Robotics Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building autonomy across wheeled robots, underwater vehicles, drones, hexapods, and robot arms. Trained at UC Berkeley and Stanford, he blends academic research in planning, reduced-order modeling, and learning-based manipulation with production work on perception, control, and localization at companies like Tesla, NVIDIA, Xwing, and Argo AI. At Tesla he has contributed to the Optimus humanoid stack, while earlier roles included lidar-based localization for taxiing aircraft and MPC/QP work for autonomous vehicle control. Comfortable across ROS1/ROS2, MPC, RL, and embedded systems, he repeatedly ships full-system solutions from motion planning to low-level control. Colleagues know him for translating research insights into robust fielded systems and for a practical curiosity that leads him to prototype on new robot platforms whenever possible.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyNovi High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (88)
mujoco9
console9
device-management9
api8
jsdoc8
clang-format8
windows8
firmware8
command-line8
simulation8
reinforcement-learning8
reinforcement-learning-environments8
deep-learning7
clang-tidy7
robotics7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
berkeleyauv/robosub_ws
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
All the code used to compete in the Robosub competition
Contributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 8 months
competerobosub
berkeleyauv/controls
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
The code for the the control system for our autonomous sub.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 24 commits in 2 years 3 months
control-systemautonomous
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