Summary
Shiva Chandrachary is a Research Engineer with 10 years of experience building perception, localization, and planning systems for automated driving, currently advancing safety-focused features at Ford Motor Company. He has a strong systems background in C++, Python and sensor fusion, and has delivered practical innovations—from radar-based motion classification and uncertainty propagation for localization to grid-map architecture and occlusion geometry tooling. Previously he applied robotics and simulation expertise at Caterpillar and AutonomouStuff, integrating LiDAR/camera stacks and drive-by-wire platforms. A lifelong learner enrolled in Udacity's Self-Driving Car Nanodegree, he pairs competitive-sports-honed creativity with hands-on prototyping and visualization to turn noisy sensor data into robust vehicle behavior.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Electrical Engineering, Masters, Electrical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Hindi, Kannada