Prasanna Krishnasamy
Senior Software Engineer, Perception at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolPrasanna Krishnasamy is a senior software engineer specializing in perception and computer vision, bringing 11+ years of hands-on experience building AI-driven products for Waymo, Apple, Amazon Lab126 and several robotics startups. He has led perception teams to productionize deep learning models—ranging from lane detection for autonomous trucking to obstacle avoidance and on-device inference for consumer robots—and has strong C++/Python expertise across deployment stacks. An active contributor to OpenCV and author on multiple patents, he blends research-grade techniques with pragmatic engineering for real-world systems. His background in mixed reality, embedded vision and cloud-based learning infrastructure gives him a rare cross-domain perspective that speeds iteration from prototype to fleet deployment.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (12)
computer-vision10
opencv10
cmake10
cpp10
python10
matlab4
deep-learning2
matconvnet2
pytorch2
object-detection1
contour1
image-quality1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prasannavk/opencv_contrib
Jun 2017 - May 2022
Repository for OpenCV's extra modules
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch, 2 comments in 4 years 11 months
pythoncomputer-vision
prasannavk/misc_problems
Mar 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:32 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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