Jake Panikulam
CEO at Main Street Autonomy
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Panikulam is a robotics and autonomy entrepreneur with 12 years of hands-on experience spanning localization, calibration, motion planning, and control across domains from autonomous driving and underwater robots to rocketry and spacecraft. As CEO of Main Street Autonomy he leads commercially deployed mapping and sensor-fusion software that combines lidar, camera, and IMU to enable robust localization with or without GPS. Previously he was an early engineering leader at Aurora and built motion planning at Uber, bringing startup-scale product delivery experience alongside deep systems and embedded expertise from roles at SpaceX and Sikorsky. Jake pairs technical leadership with practical implementation—device drivers, GPU computing, avionics, and 3D visualization feature regularly in his toolkit. He’s been featured on the Discovery Channel and is unusually social for an engineer: he invites visitors to Pittsburgh to request a home-cooked dinner two days in advance. His background reflects a blend of research-grade rigor and product-focused execution that ships in the real world.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Florida
Spanish, English
Github Skills (24)
robotics10
monorepo10
autonomous-robots10
data-science9
machine-learning9
ros8
robot8
react7
python-interface6
javascript6
navigator5
autonomous-vehicles4
python4
cpp3
operating-system3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uf-mil/SubjuGator
Aug 2015 - May 2019
SubjuGator 8 on-board software
Contributions:145 PRs, 89 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 9 months
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jpanikulam/cpy
Oct 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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