Sidharth Rao
GNC Engineer Intern at Cornell Electric Vehicles
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSidharth Rao is an autonomy-focused software engineer and Cornell junior pursuing CS and ECE, with nine years of hands-on experience building robotic systems from RC cars to enterprise demos. As Autonomy Subteam Lead for Cornell Electric Vehicles he authored a custom ROS2 EKF library and implemented MPC local planners, LiDAR-based autobrake, and a high-performance global planner that outperformed RRT* by 8x. His internships at SpaceX and Applied Materials span GNC, embedded motor control, obstruction detection, and large-scale algorithm/data-structure work (including a patent-pending algorithm and a React+Neo4J visualization). Comfortable across embedded Linux, ROS/ROS2, Python, and C++, he’s equally at home soldering IMUs as shipping cloud-backed analytics. Outside formal roles he enjoys 3D printing and prototyping, reflecting a practical tinkerer’s approach to turning algorithms into physical, testable systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Cornell Duffield College of EngineeringHigh School Diploma Robotics, High School Diploma Robotics at Choate Rosemary Hall
Github Skills (37)
ubuntu9
minecraft9
webextension8
chromeos8
crouton8
debian8
discovery8
robot8
chroot8
chrome-extension8
firefox-addon8
browser-extension7
information-gathering7
chrome7
linux7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sidharthmrao/sidharthmrao.github.io
May 2021 - Apr 2024
My Personal Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 143 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 10 months
reactnextjs
cornellev/rc-brain
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Primary codebase for our autonomous mini-cars
Contributions:2 reviews, 28 PRs, 102 pushes in 6 months
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