I was the kid that looked up at the stars and made cardboard rockets. I never let go of my childhood imagination and am always looking for a new problem to solve, feel free to contact me directly at (adithya [at] adithyabalaji [dot] com)

2022 — NowTeslaMember of Technical Staff

2022 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Tesla AI: Autopilot, Optimus, Special Projects

2021 — 2021MicrosoftSoftware Engineer

2021 — 2021

Redmond, Washington, United States

Quantum Systems Team

2020 — 2020Synthego CorporationSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2020

Shipped fast to improve the backend LIMS systems

(8VC Fellow)

2018 — 2019Georgian PartnersMachine Learning Engineer

2018 — 2019

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Foreshadow: open source ML project to speed up tabular data analysis

Widely cited AutoML benchmarking paper

Published 3 blog posts on AutoML and Python tooling that were read 5,000+ times

2019 — 2019Oklahoma City ThunderData Scientist

2019 — 2019

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Shipped a player-evaluation shot quality model using 3d basketball pose

Education

2020 — 2021

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science - MS

2020 — 2021

2017 — 2020

North Carolina State University

Bachelor of Science - BS

2017 — 2020

North Carolina State University

Bachelor of Science - BS

2017 — 2020

2015 — 2017

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

2015 — 2017

2016 — 2016

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Beaver Works

2016 — 2016

Experience+

Education

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor of Science - BS

Bachelor of Science - BS

MIT Beaver Works