# Adithya Balaji

> Tesla AI

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

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)

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ Tesla
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Tesla AI: Autopilot, Optimus, Special Projects

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Quantum Systems Team

### Software Engineer @ Synthego Corporation
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Shipped fast to improve the backend LIMS systems
(8VC Fellow)

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Georgian Partners
Jan 2018 – Jan 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

### Data Scientist @ Oklahoma City Thunder
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Shipped a player-evaluation shot quality model using 3d basketball pose

### CS Research Assistant @ North Carolina State University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Advised by Dr. Donald Bitzer (inventor of plasma screen TV): Upgraded a legacy, protein-optimization (ribolab) tool used by a team of 10 researchers

### Software Engineer @ PrecisionLender
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cary, North Carolina, United States
Shipped an NLP agent embedded in the loan pricing tool


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering
North Carolina State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

### North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### MIT Beaver Works in Autonomous Cars
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adithyabsk
- GitHub: https://www.github.com/adithyabsk
- Website: https://www.adithyabalaji.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22