# Abhinav Chawla

> Software Engineer @ Aurora | Building Autonomous Vehicles

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abhinavchawla

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Aurora
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Motion Planning Systems

### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Behavior Reasoning - Motion Planning

### Research Project Assistant @ Stony Brook University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Stony Brook, New York, United States
• Working as a research assistant at the Reliable Systems Lab under Prof. Stanley Bak

• Currently working on the F1Tenth Autonomous System in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania devising safety strategies in the field of Autonomous racing using Formal Verification

### Teaching Assistant @ Stony Brook University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Teaching Assistant for CSE390 - Mobile App Development for iOS & Android

### Software Engineer Intern @ Aurora
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineer-2 @ PayPal
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Primarily worked as an Android Engineer with sole ownership of the Settings module on the PayPal Consumer App (100M+Downloads)
• Developed, scaled and maintained Spring Boot Application service accessed by multiple Mobile clients of PayPal to fetch account information with >25Million daily hits
• Responsible for architecting the design for new experiences. Additionally worked on the PayPal Web App as a full stack developer creating new experiences for the Account Profile and Phone sections. Annual savings of $1 Million in Customer Care was achieved
• Responsible for hiring, onboarding, and mentoring new Android and Java engineers joining the team

### Software Engineer I @ PayPal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

### Software Development Intern @ PayPal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Built a prototype which enables users to share Product Reviews among your friends and family on an implicit PayPal Social Network in order to increase engagement. 
Added as a prototype feature in the PayPal Android Application.
Also Developed the middle service layer for the various backend API Calls using Spring Framework.
Received Spot(Cash) Reward for excellent performance.

### NLP Intern @ Neuron Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New Delhi Area, India
Worked as an NLP Intern on developing models for Topic Modeling and Sentimental Analysis using Python and various OpenSource libraries like Gensim, Spacy and NLTK for 10 weeks as an intern.

### Summer Intern @ American Express
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Gurgaon
Worked under the Technologies Department of American Express for 6 weeks. Analyzed the capacity management of the systems which involved Database usage, Memory Free, CPU Utilization and File System Usage.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Stony Brook University

### Integrated B.tech + M.Tech in Information Technology
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

### Matriculation
Delhi Public School-Faridabad


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhinav-chawla

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Last updated: 2026-03-29