Varun Pirakala
Research Assistant at IIIT Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Pirakala is a research-focused software engineer with nine years at IIIT Hyderabad, specializing in data-driven projects such as self-driving datasets, synthetic data generation from GTA V, and document layout analysis in collaboration with industry partners like Intel and Amazon. Comfortable at the intersection of research and engineering, he blends academic rigor from an MS in ECE with hands-on backend development—demonstrated by substantive contributions to the popular scripthookvdotnet GTA V mod, where he overhauled quaternion math and added robust transformation utilities. He excels in building reproducible datasets and tooling for vision and document understanding, and is known for tackling low-level math and engineering problems that improve downstream research quality. Based in Hyderabad, he’s a continual learner and pragmatic researcher who brings measurable improvements to both codebases and datasets.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology
Github Skills (7)
g510
csharp10
quaternions10
dotnet-core10
maths10
scripting9
netframework9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
scripthookvdotnet/scripthookvdotnet
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
An ASI plugin for Grand Theft Auto V, which allows running scripts written in any .NET language on the .NET Framework runtime in-game.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Varun contributed to the project by fixing and improving core functionalities. This includes overhauling and fixing quaternion operations. Additionally, they added new functions, such as creating quaternions from direction vectors and providing methods to transform points using quaternions. The user also made modifications to existing methods, adding an EntityType enum for better code organization.
gta5scriptinggrand-theft-auto-vtheftdotnet
varunkumar2310/CodeWalker
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
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