# Akshat Gupta > Software Engineer II @ Rivian & VW Tech | Connectivity Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/akshatgupta ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Research Assistant @ San José State University Research Foundation Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Cognizant Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Pune, Maharashtra, India ### Software Engineer Intern @ Cognizant Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer @ Intangles Lab Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Pune, Maharashtra, India ### Summer Project Intern @ IITD-AIA Foundation For Smart Manufacturing Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Delhi, India Developed a system capable of anomaly detection in injection molded products in production line. Performed data augmentation, pre-processing and trained multiple convolutional neural network models to classify faulty injection molded products with an accuracy of 89.4%. ### Avionics Engineer @ Team Garudashwa of AISSMSCOE Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Pune, Maharashtra, India Lead the team to 2nd position nationally in SAE ISS AeroDesign 2021. Developed a Data Acquisition System (DAQ) to automate the wireless release of payload and mini-UAVs in-flight and record the response data. Designed an interface dashboard for displaying real time altitude, time of flight, etc. of the UAV helping the team to automate multiple functionalities wirelessly from the ground station achieving a 9th position globally in SAE AeroDesign West 2020. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Engineering San José State University ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electronics & Telecommunications Savitribai Phule Pune University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshatgupta0302 --- Source: https://flows.cv/akshatgupta JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/akshatgupta/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11