Nitish Gudapati
Software Dev Engineer at Apple
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolNitish Gudapati is a software development engineer with 8 years of experience who blends robotics-rooted research with production engineering, currently working on virtual platform hardware modelling at Apple in Palo Alto. He holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford with a focus on robotics control and optimization and a B.Tech (Hons.) from NIT Trichy, where he led the premier robotics club and ran web and project teams. His background spans embedded systems, ROS, C++, Python, and control methods (MPC/LQR), and he demonstrated impact at Nissan by reducing traffic congestion metrics substantially and contributing to two patent submissions. A former Stanford course TA across robotics, dynamical systems, and ML, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on system integration — an engineer comfortable moving from algorithm design to vehicle CAN/ROS interfaces. Nitish’s blend of classroom teaching, published research internships, and real-world vehicle control experience makes him particularly effective at turning control-theory ideas into deployable software.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (Honours) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (Honours) Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, TiruchirappalliSchooling Computer Science - Senior Secondary, Schooling Computer Science - Senior Secondary at Srimathi Sundaravalli Memorial SchoolMaster of Science - MS Mechanical Engineering (Robotics Control and Optimization), Master of Science - MS Mechanical Engineering (Robotics Control and Optimization) at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil
Github Skills (5)
robot5
robotics4
vector2
support-vector-machine2
pepper1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RMI-NITT/RMI_website_2021
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 80 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 7 months
gnitish18/Leader-Follower_Robots
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years
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