Avani Desai
Process Engineering Intern at Tesla
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAvani Desai is a software engineer intern and ECE student at UT Austin specializing in embedded systems, computer architecture, and real-time flight and automotive software. She has hands-on experience bringing up high-performance LVGL UIs on STM32 and Renesas microcontrollers using Rust and C, and has developed high-frequency drivers and state-machine validation for rocket flight software. Avani combines hardware-near engineering with data-driven problem solving from internships in healthcare analytics and county IT, where she worked on replenishment analytics and cybersecurity deployments. Active in campus teams like Texas Rocket Engineering Lab and EcoCAR, she applies Bayesian sensor fusion and simulation to improve autonomy stacks. Notably, she balances low-level register work with safe memory management in Rust—bridging systems programming and embedded UI performance.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Dulles High School
Github Skills (29)
face-detection10
python10
technical-writing10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
gpu10
face-recognition10
neural-network10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
algorithms9
facial-recognition9
autograd9
object-detection9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kdesai2018/kdesai2018.github.io
Nov 2022 - Nov 2025
personal website, built using jekyll
Contributions:1 PR, 44 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
jekyll
kdesai2018/ultimate-hackathon-starting-guide
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
all the tools and guidance needed to get up and running at a hackathon!
Contributions:83 commits, 40 PRs, 60 pushes in 8 months
guidancepythontechnical-writing
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