Punit Soni
Staff Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPunit Soni is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building real-time embedded systems and perception software for robotics and imaging. He specializes in Modern C++, Python, and C, with deep domain expertise in camera/ISP pipelines, lidar/camera calibration, sensor fusion, and signal processing. At Waymo he led multi-year projects for real-time sensor fault detection and scalable calibration frameworks, and now brings that production-grade, fleet-scale mindset to Apple. His background spans mobile camera systems at Qualcomm, DSP firmware, and porting platform software to headless robotics platforms, reflecting a rare blend of low-level firmware, computer vision, and systems engineering. Punit pairs academic rigor from an MS in ECE with hands-on hardware integration (cameras, lidars, IMUs), and is known for turning complex sensor algorithms into robust, deployable software.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityB.Tech Electronics and Communication, B.Tech Electronics and Communication at Nirma University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
vim10
emacs10
emacs-lsp9
melpa9
spacemacs9
structure-from-motion9
levenberg-marquardt9
computer-vision8
bitset8
twitter8
nonlinear-optimization-algorithms8
window-manager8
numerical-optimization8
tiling8
nanopb8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
punitsoni/scratch
Oct 2015 - Sep 2020
A collection of random tools, scripts and programs
Contributions:61 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
scriptrandom-generationprogramsgift
punitsoni/rover
Nov 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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