Kushal Jaligama
Self Employed
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolKushal Jaligama is a systems-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building embedded, autonomy, and sensing systems for robotics and aerospace applications. He has shipped safety-critical firmware and mapping/tracking stacks for multi-agent VTOL projects at Shield AI and worked on simulation and SIL/HIL infrastructure at Tesla and SpaceX, bridging low-level firmware to AI-driven autonomy. Comfortable across C++, Python, ROS-replacements, and CI tooling, he specializes in sensor integration, probabilistic mapping, RF analysis, and real-time embedded networking. Passionate about applying ML and reinforcement learning to robotics, healthcare AI, and autonomous vehicles, he pairs deep technical curiosity—often gained by "breaking things to understand them"—with a pragmatic focus on reliability. Based in Long Beach, he also moonlights as a DJ, a creative outlet he credits with boosting his productivity and systems-level thinking.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Rochester High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Dual Major in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Bachelor’s Degree Dual Major in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsHigh School, High School at Oakland University
English, Telugu, German, Hindi
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Github Skills (24)
opencv10
image-processing10
stock-trading10
alpaca10
deep-learning10
computer-vision10
trading9
python9
crypto9
finance9
algorithmic-trading8
algotrading8
quantitative-finance8
ruby8
homebrew7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kushalj1997/deep-ai
May 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:140 PRs, 360 pushes, 426 branches in 15 days
kushalj1997/kushalj1997.github.io
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Custom Website showcasing projects and other fun stuff!
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 month
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