# Ashwin R.

> Software Engineer @ Agility Robotics

Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ashwinr

Helping humans do what only humans can do through integration of robot and human environments and human-robot interaction

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Agility Robotics
Jan 2025 – Present | Salem, Oregon, United States

### Software Engineer @ Agility Robotics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Tangent, Oregon, United States

### Research Assistant @ UCSD Healthcare Robotics Lab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Diego, California, United States
Contributed to various research projects through designing robots, tools, and experiments, data collection and analysis, publication, and meeting with project stakeholders. Built a database system for use in machine learning applications.

### Software Developer and Research Administrator @ Knock Knock Bot
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Diego, California, United States
Investigated emotional responses generated by social interactions initiated by a robot in the office setting. Implemented on a Kobuki Turtlebot running ROS and Python, the Knock Knock bot knocks on doors to initiate interactions and assumes a character (such as comedian or evangelist) for the interaction duration.

### Drone Development Engineer @ UCSD Cultural Heritage Engineering Institute
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Diego, California, United States
Augmented a development quadcopter drone with topologically optimized wings designed using SolidWorks and nTopology as well as a tension-based gripper module mounted to the base of the vehicle for use in articulation, manipulation, and landing.

### Search Machine Learning Engineer @ Moveworks
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
Decreased online text processing latency by a nominal 40x through an architecture search of Transformer-based language models while maintaining comparable performance.

### Software Developer @ CSE 142/142L Tools
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Diego, California, United States
Worked with a professor and a team of peers to develop tools for supporting the new CSE142 and CSE142L courses and helping students explore computer architecture and program compilation and execution.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Versa Networks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Using Java, migrated product to a Spring/JPA framework for better extensibility and efficiency of data
access with scale. Implemented user definable package upload timeout option as well as customized
email notifications with diagrams relevant to the user’s virtual CPE.

### Project Manager @ HOUSE
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Diego, California, United States
Managed a team of ten developers building an HTML/CSS front-end and Python backend web application. Targeted towards university students, the application allows students to easily compile and compare information about apartments across various listing sites.

### Software Development Intern @ Synopsys Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA
Responsible for Big Data Analysis/ML on Compute Farm logs, job stats on ELK Elastic infrastructure, and
identifying hot spots on post processing system to ease server load. Automated source code audit system to sort and organize data and developed Python and bash scripts for farm usage data retrieval.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Control
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
UC San Diego

### The Harker School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashwin-r-rao

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Last updated: 2026-04-05