Arnav Dhamija

Senior Software Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States5 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Behavior Planning for Autonomous Vehicles
Strong background in Robotics and Software Development
Proven track record in developing innovative streaming solutions

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Robotics and Software Development expert with a focus on Autonomous Systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentC++PythonNetworkingStreaming TechnologyKde

Other Skills

Automated TestingAutonomous VehiclesBehavior PlanningDisruption ToleranceGStreamerJavaJavaScriptKDE Input/OutputLinuxNVIDIA Xavier NXNetwork Protocol DevelopmentNode.jsQtRTSP StreamingRobotic Simulations

About

I'm Arnav Dhamija, and I now work on Behavior Planning for Autonomous Vehicles at NVIDIA. Before this, I was an MSE Robotics student at UPenn. If you're looking for a referral, please title your message with "Blue helium balloons for sale". Requests for referrals without this sentence will be ignored. Happy to chat otherwise though!

Experience

Nvidia

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Behavior Planning for the Level 2 and Level 3 Autonomous Vehicles stack in the next generation of Mercedes Benz cars

Behavior PlanningAutonomous VehiclesSoftware DevelopmentC++

Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jugaad lab

Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Jan 2021 · 4 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Worked on a webserver tool for live streaming video from a ZED2 and CSI camera on a NVIDIA Xavier NX
Integrated TensorRT models in the webserver for live object detection
Developed simulations for robotic warehouse environments in the NVIDIA Isaac simulator

Webserver Tool DevelopmentTensorRTRobotic SimulationsSoftware DevelopmentPython

National university of singapore

Acoustic Research Laboratory - Research Intern

Jan 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos · Singapore

Developed a network protocol for adding disruption tolerance to underwater networks using UnetStack, supervised by Prof. Mandar Chitre.
Demonstrated that DtnLink can improve message delivery ratio by 4x in simulations.
Created an automated test suite, several example simulations, and extensively documented results in my undergrad thesis.

Network Protocol DevelopmentDisruption ToleranceSoftware DevelopmentNetworking

Google summer of code

2 roles

Google Summer of Code 2018 - ArduPilot

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Remote

Developed APStreamline, an RTSP based network adaptive live-streaming solution for Ardupilot robots with companion computers.
Optimized streaming performance using C++ and GStreamer libraries for GPU encoding on the Raspberry Pi.
Added support for multiple cameras, video recording, and automatic quality adjustment based on packet loss.

RTSP StreamingC++GStreamerSoftware DevelopmentStreaming Technology

Google Sumer of Code 2016 - KDE

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Remote

Successfully implemented a novel idea for Virtual Folder support using the KDE Input/Output subsystem.
Learned automated unit testing, version control, and became proficient with C++ and Qt.
Shipped and packaged kio-stash for release in KDE’s software repositories.

KDE Input/OutputAutomated TestingSoftware DevelopmentKDE