Vhal is currently working on the simulation team at AVRide. Working on a wide range of projects ranging from core simulation issues such as sim-to-real parity, to offline processing infrastructure at scale Previously, he had been working on software infrastructure tools at Fox Robotics, as part of the autonomy...

Experience

AvrideSoftware Engineer

2025 — Now

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Simulation team

Fox RoboticsSenior Software Engineer

2023 — 2025

Austin, Texas, United States

Katana GraphSoftware Engineer II

2022 — 2022

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Designed and implemented RFCs for C++ and Python projects.  Discovered and analyzed bottlenecks in large-scale distributed C++ applications, using tools such as VTune and Jaeger. Implemented query engine optimizations, improving execution by up to 1000x for queries significant to clients executed on terabyte-sized datasets.

Katana GraphSoftware Engineer

2021 — 2022

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

University of California, Santa CruzTeaching Assistant

2020 — 2021

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

Masters

L.D. College of Engineering

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Education

Masters

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Experience