Sumer Kohli
Staff Autopilot Engineer at Tesla
Saratoga, California, United States
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Top SchoolSumer Kohli is a Staff Autopilot Engineer at Tesla with a decade of software engineering experience focused on ML inference, vision, and runtime systems for autonomous vehicles and humanoid robotics. A Stanford MS and UC Berkeley BS alumnus, he has moved rapidly from internships to leading ML engineering teams, shipping performance-sensitive systems that optimize inference and scheduling across Autopilot and Optimus. His background spans high-throughput backend systems, Rust/C# scalable services, and research-grade language runtime work accepted to HotOS and EuroSys, reflecting comfort across both production and academic settings. He’s also a repeat course assistant and TA with consistently exceptional teaching ratings, demonstrating an uncommon combination of people-facing mentorship and deep systems expertise. Colleagues value his polyglot fluency and obsession with discovering new tools and paradigms—though he draws a hard line at PHP.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringThe Harker SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Hindi
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Github Skills (101)
parallel10
burp10
python10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
ray10
optimization10
data-science10
reinforcement-learning10
java10
lifting10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
scaling10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
firebolt55439/Diep.io-Protocol
Jun 2016 - Feb 2020
A project dedicated to reverse-engineering diep.io's client/server protocol.
Contributions:11 commits, 12 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 8 months
diepclient-serverdedicatedserver-protocolengineering
firebolt55439/gomovies
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:74 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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