Sidharth Kathpal
Senior Engineer at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolSidharth Kathpal is a Senior Engineer specializing in machine learning performance with eight years of experience bridging research and production engineering in automotive and storage domains. With a Master’s in Computational Data Science from Carnegie Mellon and roles at Qualcomm and CMU, he focuses on applied deep reinforcement learning for safe, real-world autonomous driving systems. He has a proven track record of improving system-level performance—previously delivering a 20% IOPS gain on Zoned Namespace NVMe drives—and translating research prototypes into scalable deployments. At Qualcomm he advances ML performance tooling and safe-learning approaches that accelerate autonomous vehicle capability. Based in San Diego, he combines hands-on engineering, academic research experience from the LearnToRace challenge, and cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Thapar Institute of Engineering & TechnologyMaster's degree Computational Data Science, Master's degree Computational Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (15)
tracks8
simulator7
robotics6
racing5
deep-reinforcement-learning5
computer-vision5
pybullet4
artificial-intelligence4
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
autonomous-driving4
reinforcement-learning4
pytorch3
ai3
self-driving-car2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sidharthkathpal/Ghostbusters
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
CMU-IDS-2022/final-project-mass-squad
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
final-project-mass-squad created by GitHub Classroom
Contributions:11 PRs, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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