Abhilash Chowdhary

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Co-founder of a Y Combinator-backed startup.
Expertise in robotics and autonomous systems.
Strong background in quantitative finance and data analysis.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Robotics and AI specialist with a focus on B2B solutions.

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Machine LearningPythonDeep LearningRoboticsAlgorithmsData StructuresJavaBayesian inferenceC++Distributed SystemsCRMatlabMySQLInformation Retrieval

About

Love building things. A software engineer with vast experience in shipping products spanning robotics, web technologies and quantitative finance.

Experience

Crustdata

Co-Founder & CEO

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Realtime B2B data for AI agents. Fresh, fast, complete and accurate data to help you build the best AI agent in sales, recruitment and investment.
Backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, SV Angel and A Capital

Serve robotics

2 roles

Product

Jan 2022 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco, California, United States

Led multiple product initiatives across autonomy and safety from idea to deployment.

Engineering Manager, Motion Planning and Controls

Mar 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Founding member. Led and built the Navigation stack for our robots.

Uber

Robotics Lead, Motion Planning and Controls

Dec 2020 – Feb 2021 · 2 mos

Leading the efforts in developing the navigation stack which moves Serve. Spun-off from Uber into Serve Robotics.

Postmates inc.

2 roles

Robotics Lead, Motion Planning and Controls (Acquired by Uber)

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Dec 2020 · 5 mos

Leading the efforts in developing the navigation stack which moves Serve.

Robotics Engineer

Nov 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Making autonomous sidewalk robots a reality.

Robotwits

2 roles

Senior Robotics Researcher (Acquired by Waymo)

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Nov 2019 · 10 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area

Built robots

Robotics Researcher

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area

Motion planning and decision making for self-driving vehicles

Thinknum

Backend Engineer

Jun 2017 – Jan 2018 · 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

Built backtesting platform and alpha generating strategies using alternative data.

Virginia tech

Graduate Research Assistant

Aug 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Virginia, United States

Engineering: Developed autonomy software stack for controlling an autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV) remotely over various long range communication channels like radio and acoustic waves.
Research: Focused on the development of computationally efficient online learning and inference techniques to assist in estimation of robot's state underwater.