Bharath Kumar
Software Engineer II, Mapping at Aurora
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBharath Kumar is a robotics-focused Software Engineer II on Aurora’s mapping team with nine years of hands-on experience building perception, planning, and control systems for manipulators, mobile robots, drones and autonomous vehicles. He has a strong academic foundation from a Robotics MS at WPI and a track record of turning research prototypes into production-grade tools—e.g., boosting lane-boundary generation speed 50x at Aurora and building benchmarking pipelines for grasp detection on Franka Panda. Comfortable across 3D lidar visual odometry, learning-based perception, control theory and computational geometry, he blends algorithmic depth with pragmatic engineering. Based in Sunnyvale, he gravitates toward work that delivers measurable societal impact and often bridges simulation and hardware to validate solutions end-to-end. An early pattern in his career is accelerating developer productivity—profilers, visualization and evaluation tools repeatedly appear in his contributions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Robotics Engineering, 4/4, Master's degree, Robotics Engineering, 4/4 at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor's degree, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, 7.8/10, Bachelor's degree, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, 7.8/10 at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
English, Tamil
Github Skills (51)
pytorch10
opencv10
visualization10
open3d10
python10
image-processing10
rendering10
volume-rendering10
cluster-computing10
drones10
odometry10
deep-learning10
computer-graphics10
gpu10
3d10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cdbharath/shadow_detection_and_removal
Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
cdbharath/cerebro
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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