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.
9 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 (39)
opencv10
python10
image-processing10
stock-trading10
alpaca10
deep-learning10
computer-vision10
trading9
ruby9
finance9
crypto8
algorithmic-trading8
api8
automated-trading8
homebrew8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
umigv/obstacle-detector
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Grab a ZED Camera image, process it with OpenCV, and publish an occupancy grid
Contributions:1 PR, 144 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
publishzed-cameragrabcameraoccupancy
kushalj1997/Neural-Engineering
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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