Yash Trikannad
Senior Software Engineer at Motional
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Trikannad is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable autonomy software for real-world driving systems. He has driven production and research efforts across Motional (Boston, Singapore, Pittsburgh) and Uber ATG, combining robotics research from his MS in Robotics at UPenn with hands-on deployment experience. Yash specializes in robust perception and planning under uncertainty, with a track record of contributing to DARPA SubTerranean research and autonomous vehicle stacks. Comfortable moving between research and production, he’s known for making algorithms reliable at scale and adapting to diverse operational environments. Based in Boston, he brings cross-continental autonomy expertise and a practical focus on safety and real-world robustness.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Manipal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Hindi, Marathi, French, German, Konkani
Stackoverflow
315reputation
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7answers
6questions
Github Skills (21)
floor10
paths9
ros8
blueprint8
multi-agent7
cpp7
pathfinding6
dstar6
autonomous-driving6
agent6
eigen6
googletest6
graph6
astar6
graph-algorithms6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
YashTrikannad/fmt_star_ros
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:52 commits, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
YashTrikannad/mpc_av
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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