Shaantam Chawla
Technical Program Manager - USG at Palantir Technologies
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaantam Chawla is a Technical Program Manager at Palantir with 11 years of engineering and research experience spanning robotics, embedded flight software, AI/ML systems, and science & technology policy. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate pursuing an M.Eng focused on robotics and autonomy, he pairs hands-on firmware, controls, and computer vision work with program-level delivery across commercial space and national security projects. His background includes leading AI/ML embedded systems at Privateer Space, building flight software for smallsat missions, and contributing to federal AI policy through the National Security Commission and SCSP. Shaantam has repeatedly bridged academia and industry—designing AV experiments at Berkeley DeepDrive, developing life-saving mobile robots at Squishy Robotics, and shipping ML pipelines in AgTech and biotech startups. Comfortable toggling between technical depth and cross-functional coordination, he brings a rare mix of mission-driven product focus and policy-savvy perspective to autonomy and defense programs. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves quickly from prototype firmware to strategic roadmap while keeping an eye on workforce and governance implications of emerging tech.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Public Policy Minor, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Public Policy Minor at University of California, Berkeley
English, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (39)
python8
machine-learning8
datasets8
semantic-segmentation8
pytorch8
annotations8
data-science7
labeling7
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
computer-vision7
standardized6
image-classification6
neural-network5
image-labeling5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shaantamchawla/shaantamchawla.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
shaantamchawla/Pill-Dispenser
Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 6 months
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