# Aravind Sivakumar

> Founding Engineer, Tonita

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aravind

Building Tonita, a conversational shopping assistant.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Tonita
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, United States
Check us out at https://www.tonita.co/

### Research Engineer @ Vicarious AI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Union City, California

### Midfielder @ Cal Golden Bears Men's Soccer Team
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California
Starter for three out of four years (67 games, 46 starts, 4 goals, 10 assists).
Voted PAC-12 Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year in senior season (2017).
Selected to the PAC-12 Conference All-Academic First Team every season.
Voted Team Captain in senior year.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Twitter
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built a Hidden Markov Model (Scala, Lua, Torch) to predict the geolocation of a Twitter user based on IP address history, with the goal of improving ads targeting.

### Software Engineer @ Zamono, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Prototyped various features and applications for a medical communications startup, using tools such as Hyperledger, AWS, Node.js, Twilio, MongoDB and DigitalOcean.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Master's degree in Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aravind-sivakumar-a1430410b

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Source: https://flows.cv/aravind
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Last updated: 2026-03-20