Summary
Siddharth Saha is a Senior Software Engineer and autonomy lead with nine years of experience designing and shipping robotics and autonomous vehicle systems, currently split between Shield AI and heading autonomy at AVAmobility. He built and optimized high-performance C++ ROS 2 stacks for the Indy Autonomous Challenge, helping AI Racing Tech finish as the top American team and drastically reducing CPU load and latency across drivers and planners. His work spans perception, state estimation, path and behavior planning, simulator integration, and CI pipelines—often developing custom code generators and Kalman filters to handle GPS dropouts and real-world race constraints. At AVAmobility he’s architecting a community-driven autonomous shuttle service in Maui, making sensor choices and urban navigation design decisions for production deployment. He mentors students in robotics and data science, and maintains an active presence sharing projects and collaborating from San Diego.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Data Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Data Science at Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego
Providence High School
National Public School
Cupertino High School
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
English, Hindi