Aayush Naik

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States6 yrs experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

CTO & Co-Founder of a Y Combinator startup.
Developed AI-based robotics systems with real-time capabilities.
Strong background in machine learning and software development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Robotics and AI specialist with a strong software engineering background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsMachine LearningEducation

Other Skills

PythonC++ROSPyTorchMoveIt!Data AnalysisObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)AlgorithmsData StructuresDeep LearningCGitMySQLLinuxNumPy

About

Hi, I'm Aayush.

Experience

6 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 1 mo

Current Experience

South park commons

Member

Aug 2025 – Oct 2025 · 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Hypercubic

CTO & Co-Founder

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco, California, United States

Backed by CIV, Y Combinator, Afore Capital, and Ride Home Fund.

PythonC++Machine LearningArtificial IntelligenceSoftware Development

Apple

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2024 – May 2025 · 7 mos

Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Uc san diego computer science and engineering department (cse)

Graduate Student Researcher at Cognitive Robotics

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Diego, California, United States

● Developed more than 20 packages for an AI-based distributed Automatic Robot Assembly project.
● Collaborated with a team of professional software engineers and researchers, mentored by Prof. Henrik I. Christensen, using languages and frameworks like C++, Python, ROS, PyTorch, and MoveIt!.
● The resulting system can perform 6D-pose estimation for a variety of objects, and parallel, real-time execution of two UR5e robot arms, and has excellent fault-recovery capabilities using Behavior Trees.
● Applied path planning algorithms like RRT, PRM, A* search; deep learning for 6D pose estimation.

C++PythonROSPyTorchMoveIt!Robotics+1

University of california san diego

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 · 2 mos · San Diego, California, United States

● Designed 5 lab projects involving IoT communication, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Robotics, Multi-agent Orchestration, and Web Programming.
● Used NVIDIA JetBots as a vehicle to introduce robotics and machine learning to 90+ students.
● Specific technologies used: Python, PyTorch, OOP, REST, and MQTT.

PythonPyTorchMachine LearningRoboticsEducation

Sprinklr

Machine Learning Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

● Implemented text-in-the-wild extraction from social media images, enabling the company to perform analysis on a new stream of data resulting in improving its social media analytics capabilities.
● Developed a synthetic image data generator to expand the training data by more than 200% which improved the validation accuracy by 15%.

Machine LearningData Analysis

Iiit hyderabad

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2017 – May 2017 · 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

● Supported the delivery of the IT-Workshop 2 course to 120+ students focusing on Functional Programming, Abstract Syntax Trees, Javascript, Python, Web Development, REST API, and jQuery.

University Finance Lead

Aug 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

● Led budget allocation for all student-led campus events and oversaw the largest student event - Felicity 2017 - with 1,000+ attendees resulting in staying under budget for the first time in the last 4 years.

The new york times

Student Ambassador

Oct 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

● Enabled the student community of IIIT Hyderabad with knowledge from different fields like leadership, economics, psychology, and sociology, thus, helped in expanding their breadth of knowledge.