# Ansar K.

> SWE @ Kodiak Robotics

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

Trying to make things drive better than I can.

Last few years its been mostly trucks 🚛 🚛

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Kodiak
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Simulation and Controls of Autonomous Big Rigs 🚛

We’re growing fast, and we’re the only company with truly driverless trucks out on roads today. Come be part of the future of autonomous freight: 

https://kodiak.ai/careers

### Software Engineer @ Kodiak
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Simulation of Autonomous Big Rigs 🚛

### Software Engineer @ Kodiak
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
Simulation of Autonomous Big Rigs 🚛

### Software Engineer @ Embark Trucks
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Simulation of Autonomous Big Rigs 🚛

### Software Engineer @ OTTO by Rockwell Automation
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Working on Robotic Diagnostic Software

### Automotive R&D Engineer @ GEOTAB
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Reverse Engineering Electric Vehicles

### Robotics Research Engineer @ Ford Motor Company
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Detroit Metropolitan Area
Robotics Research Engineer at Ford Advanced Manufacturing

• Designed a patent-pending path planning algorithm for marsupial
robotic systems specialized for surveying. Applied combinatorial
optimization techniques to effectively route system consisting of Boston Dynamics' Spot and Clearpath Robotics' Boxer.

### Simulation Engineer @ Clearpath Robotics by Rockwell Automation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Kitchener, Canada Area
Building out simulation algorithms for autonomous mobile robots.

### Quality Control Engineer @ International Medical Solutions
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area
Quality assurance for medical diagnostic software.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ansar-z-khan
- Website: https://github.com/ansar-z-khan/

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Last updated: 2026-04-05