Summary
Shubham Khilari is a senior engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in robotics, perception, and autonomous vehicle software, based in Sunnyvale, CA. He has progressed from intern to engineering manager at Luminar Technologies, leading LiDAR-based product development, cross-functional delivery, and achieving ASPICE certification for software practices. His hands-on contributions span GPU-accelerated planners and lane geometry (CUDA/OpenCL), point-cloud velocity estimation, and advanced vehicle control using MPC, CLF/CBF methods and deep RL. Now at Obvio, he continues to bridge research and product delivery, combining rigorous mechatronics training (WPI) with systems engineering depth. An engineer who moves between low-level optimization and program-level leadership, he’s particularly adept at turning perception and control research into production-grade features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Marathi, German, Hindi