Pavan Chitta is a research-focused software engineer with eight years of experience building machine learning and autonomy systems across industry-leading labs and startups in the Bay Area. He has progressed from internships at IBM, Facebook, and Apple to impactful autonomy and ML roles at Nuro and Windsurf, and now contributes to DeepMind research in San Francisco. With a Caltech CS degree and hands-on experience shipping production autonomy stacks, he bridges cutting-edge research and deployable systems engineering. Pavan’s background includes founding an assistive-tech app for the visually impaired and contributing to applied ML research, highlighting a practical bent for socially beneficial technology. Known for making architectural decisions and inventing tooling early in his career, he brings both product-minded rigor and research curiosity to complex perception and planning problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate (IB), International Baccalaureate (IB) at Greenwood HIgh International School
California Institute of Technology
IGCSE, IGCSE at Greenwood High International School
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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