Ashwin Venkatesan
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAshwin Venkatesan is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building embedded and application-level software, now driving production-grade systems at Datadog. His background blends low-level embedded Linux and C/C++ work with Python APIs and web-enabled control applications, honed through multiple roles at Extron where he helped ship dozens of AV products and halved driver development time. Comfortable across firmware, services, and tooling, he emphasizes testability and code quality—evidenced by contributions to the Mycroft AI core improving numeric formatting and adding targeted tests. Trained in dynamics and control at USC and with early hands-on robotics and ECU projects, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset and a knack for turning hardware constraints into reliable software solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Dynamics and Control, MS, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Dynamics and Control at University of Southern CaliforniaPU, PCMC, PU, PCMC at Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain CollegeBS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, JamshedpurHigh School, High School at Sudarshan Vidya Mandir
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
python-decorators9
debugging9
openpyxl9
python9
decorator9
excel9
ai8
tkinter6
expression6
pyinstaller6
batchfile6
python-path6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MycroftAI/mycroft-core
May 2017 - May 2017
Mycroft Core, the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ashwin primarily focused on improving the formatting and testing of the Mycroft Core project. They fixed pep8 issues, a bug in the `nice_number` function and added a test for the non speech format of the `nice_number` function. Further contributions included modifying and adding tests for the `nice_number` function, ensuring proper formatting of numbers. This work demonstrates a focus on code quality, testability, and the accurate presentation of numerical data within the Mycroft AI platform.
artificial-intelligenceainlpvoice-assistantpython
ashwinjv/ytrie
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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