Shashwat Kandadai
Software Engineer at Applied Intuition
Saratoga, California, United States
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Top SchoolShashwat Kandadai is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building safety-critical, real-time systems for autonomous vehicles and robotics. His career spans founding-engineer work at a startup and senior planning and controls roles at Cruise, Applied Intuition, and currently Waymo, where he focuses on trajectory planning and simulation. He excels at collaborating with domain experts to translate physical-system constraints into robust software and has a track record of inventing practical solutions under tight hardware and safety constraints. An active open-source contributor, he maintained a JavaScript SGP4/SDP4 satellite propagation library, adding coordinate transforms and Doppler calculations while modernizing the codebase. Based in Saratoga, CA and grounded in a CS degree from UC Santa Cruz, he blends systems-level rigor with hands-on engineering across embedded and cloud tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances long-term architecture with shipping high-quality, production-ready features.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
javascript10
coordinate-transformation10
makefile9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shashwatak/satellite-js
Mar 2013 - Oct 2016
Modular set of functions for SGP4 and SDP4 propagation of TLEs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Shashwat primarily contributed to a JavaScript library for satellite orbit propagation. Their work involved fixing bugs in the parsing of TLE data, adding coordinate transformation functions between ECI, ECF, and Geodetic coordinate systems, and implementing a Doppler calculation function. Furthermore, they refactored the codebase by restructuring it into separate files and creating a Makefile for building a consolidated library.
propagationsgp4modularsdp4
shashwatak/EarthStation
May 2013 - Nov 2020
Contributions:91 commits, 2 pushes in 7 years 7 months
satellites
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