Sandeep Kota
Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolSandeep Kota is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics with 7 years of experience delivering production-grade perception systems for automotive and drone platforms. He has shipped vision features for commercial vehicles—most notably improving trailer tracking accuracy by 10% for the 2023 RAM pickup deployment—and has driven autonomy work from research prototyping (PyTorch, CNNs) to C++ production code and MLOps pipelines. His background spans automotive OEMs, startups, and academic research (co-authored high-impact healthcare AI papers), reflecting a pragmatic blend of algorithmic rigor and systems engineering. Comfortable across ROS, real-time sensor fusion, and LLM-driven multimodal experiments, he’s currently exploring retrieval-augmented multimodal agents while working on autonomous driving software. Open to perception, ML, and robotics roles across the US, he combines hands-on coding with a track record of turning research insights into deployed products.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechatronics, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechatronics at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research AcademyMaster of Engineering - MEng Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at University of Maryland
English, Hindi, Telugu, German
Github Skills (18)
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logistics6
planning6
publisher6
ignition6
ros5
robotics5
simulation5
mavlink4
motion-planning4
arm3
testcase1
java1
unit-testing1
maintenance1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sandeep-kota/Human-Perception-Module-CPP
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 24 days
sandeep-kota/ROS-Concepts
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 40 commits, 14 pushes in 16 days
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