Summary
Vinay Senthil is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in San Jose with a decade of experience building ML-driven systems for robotics and autonomous vehicles, currently on Qualcomm’s Planning and Controls team and promoted into a senior ML role. He holds an interdisciplinary M&T education from UPenn with an MS in Robotics and BSE in Computer Science, and has a track record of deploying production-ready models and pipelines—from Mask R-CNN drone identification and Dockerized GPU workflows to FPGA neural-net notebooks and cloud-deployed aerodynamic simulators. Vinay blends research and product experience across startups, academia, and industry, having contributed to NASA and university labs as well as commercial teams at CrowdAI, Xilinx, and Foxpass. Notably, he pairs hands-on implementation (Python, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Docker) with system-level thinking for autonomous systems, optimizing workflows that span edge hardware to cloud training.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
English, Tamil