# Amruta Yelamanchili

> Senior Software Engineer at Motional

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/amrutayelamanchili

Experienced Software Engineer with a passion for robotics on Earth and beyond. My career has focused on automated planning - activity planning for satellites and rovers with NASA, and motion planning for self-driving vehicles with Motional. On the side, I'm a comedy writer and improviser! I have studied at the Upright Citizen's Brigade and the Westside Comedy Theater.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Motion Planning @ Motional
Jan 2022 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Kernel
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Culver City, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Pasadena, California, United States
I am a software engineer in the Artificial Intelligence Group working on automated planning and scheduling technologies. I have built the software that schedules the activities of the ECOSTRESS and OCO-3 instruments both of which are earth-observing instruments attached to the International Space Station. I currently work on the scheduling system and explainable scheduling tool for the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover.

### Software Engineering Intern @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Worked on a planning tool for the Europa Clipper mission as part of the Mission Control Systems Engineering and Software Architecture group

### Undergraduate Student Instructor @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA
Teaching Assistant for:
CS 186/286A - Introduction to Database Systems (Fall 2016, Fall 2017)
CS 375 - Teaching Techniques for Computer Science (Summer 2016, Summer 2017)
 CS 10 - The Beauty and Joy of Computing (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
CS 61B - Data Structures and Algorithms (Summer 2015)

### Software Development Intern @ athenahealth
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California
Prototyped a chatbot for use in Epocrates, a medical reference app. It is the #1 medical reference app used by doctors in the United States. I worked on the full stack, from pulling in information from databases, parsing user input, and creating a web interface.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### High School
Centennial High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13