Pranav Ashok
Senior Software Engineer at Zerowatt
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolPranav Ashok is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience combining rigorous academic training (PhD-level work at TUM and an MSc from Chennai Mathematical Institute) with hands-on delivery in autonomy, simulation, and large-scale backend systems. He has driven safety and simulation engineering for robotaxi and ADAS stacks at Argo AI and CARIAD, and architected IoT backends handling thousands of messages per second and billions of rows at Zerowatt. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has led interdisciplinary teams, mentored students, and published on uncertainty quantification for autonomous driving perception. Known for pragmatic engineering, he focuses on delivering customer value—whether building OpenDRIVE/Lanelet2 conversions for simulators or resurrecting legacy enterprise storage tools—while exploring dependable AI, optimization, and control.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Technical University of MunichNaval Public SchoolMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Chennai Mathematical InstituteB. Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut
English, Konkani, Malayalam, Hindi, German
Github Skills (59)
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electricity9
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django8
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sustainability8
climate-change8
depth-camera8
consumption8
crowdsourcing7
tla7
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pranavashok/prism
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
The main development version of the PRISM model checker.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
model-checkerprismchecker
pranavashok/dafont-dl
Jun 2013 - Jul 2018
Useful for downloading fonts in bulk from Dafont.
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
downloadingfontfontsdafont
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