Ram Vellanki
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRam Vellanki is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building production-grade systems across autonomy and large-scale cloud environments, currently leading engineering work at Waymo in New York. He progressed through software roles at Waymo and Google after earning a Computer Science degree from Cornell, bringing a blend of research-driven rigor (platform lead for Cornell's Unmanned Air Systems) and product-focused delivery. Ram's background spans low-latency, safety-critical autonomous stacks and infrastructure engineering, with hands-on experience from intern to staff levels that informs both technical design and team mentorship. He’s comfortable translating academic robotics and systems work into deployable products, and his career trajectory suggests a knack for stepping into complex domains and rapidly scaling both codebases and teams.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Cornell University
English
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Github Skills (26)
kotlin10
android-app10
kotlin-extensions10
kotlin-android9
android9
code-intelligence8
code-search7
sourcegraph7
programming-language7
scala-collections6
code-interpreter6
hashset6
code-generation6
dictionary6
python-requests6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
myofit/MyoFit
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes in 2 days
RamV13/scrabble
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:350 commits in 3 months
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