# Adarsh Ponaka > Figure AI || prev Apple, Google[x] Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adarshponaka I'm Adarsh! I aspire to work at the pinnacle of innovation in robotics, wearables, and consumer electronics, where groundbreaking advancements are embraced. I want to use robotics and embedded systems to solve society's problems while engineering at the intersection between hardware and software in high learning rate environments. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Figure Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Humanoid Robots πŸ€– ### Software Engineer @ Figure Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cupertino, California, United States Precision sound-based localization. ### Software Engineer @ X, the moonshot factory Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States Everyday Robots Project, born from Google's X, the moonshot factory. A general purpose robot that can be taught by anyone, in order to help anyone. β€’ Rewrote the robot speech stack to dramatically improve accuracy. The new speech stack was later used in Google Research's PaLM-SayCan demo. ### Software Engineer @ Nimbus Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 YC W20 A 3-wheeled, self-tilting electric vehicle for urban transportation. β€’ motor controllers β€’ sensor drivers β€’ steer-by-wire/tilt-by-wire β€’ vehicle dashboard β€’ vehicle mobile app β€’ data visualization tool ### Mobile Developer @ Ascendum Solutions Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Blue Ash, Ohio, United States β€’ Fully developed Magpie, a mobile photo hunt game for iPhone and Android, on a team of 6. ### Mobile Development Intern @ Ascendum Solutions Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Blue Ash, Ohio, United States ### Zero to Sixty Fellow @ Vora Ventures Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Blue Ash, Ohio, United States Zero To Sixty is a competitive summer fellowship for which 6 high schoolers are selected and challenged to build/launch a socially impactful business solution in 10 weeks. Each fellow takes part in a post 10 week β€œShark Tank” style pitch to investors, VC firms, and Fortune 50 Executives. The team receives mentorship from senior architects and managers from Vora Ventures'​ portfolio companies and are also personally mentored by top serial entrepreneurs through the process of creating the company. During the Zero to Sixty program: - attended Queen City Angels' Entrepreneurship Bootcamp and met many startup CEOs aspiring to grow their businesses. - designed, validated, and created a product from its inception: a 'LinkedIn' for kids. - created static promotional websites and uniquely collected 500+ user emails in one week. - amassed a user base of 4,125+ people, including a Slack community of 100. - pitched to local investors, VC firms, and Fortune 50 Executives. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Engineering - B.S.E in Computer Engineering University of Michigan ### Master of Science in Engineering - M.S.E in Computer Science University of Michigan ### High School Diploma William Mason High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adarsh-ponaka-13379b14a --- Source: https://flows.cv/adarshponaka JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adarshponaka/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11