# Gautam Venkatesan

> Building the Metaverse

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

Engineer @ Meta Reality Labs

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Reality Labs @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Present | Menlo Park, California

### Applications Engineer, Factory Software @ Tesla
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
·	Wrote scripts and automated processes to enable the Model 3 production ramp to 5,000 vehicles per week 

·	Created monitoring/alerting tools to detect impending failures on assembly lines and automatically mitigate the threats

·	Managed response, investigation, and recovery for software-related incidents causing production downtime at any Tesla manufacturing facility

### Engineering Intern, Advanced Technology Interactives @ Universal Creative
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Orlando, Florida Area
· Created and user tested fully-featured mockups of interactive games for Universal's upcoming Super Nintendo World™ 

· Implemented a virtual reality gaze-tracking system (C#, D) to collect, aggregate, and play back user attention data from upcoming AR/VR experiences at Universal parks 

· Developed and distributed a “Ride Engineering Toolkit” iOS app for internal use by Ride and Show Engineering team 

· Designed, prototyped, and manufactured an ADA compliant transfer platform for the Krakatau™ Aqua Coaster at Universal’s Volcano Bay™

### Project Management Intern, Operational Excellence @ Tesla
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Fremont, CA
·	Managed development, release, delivery, and training for global update to online safety incident reporting tool

·	Designed and produced Tableau dashboards to dynamically and intuitively visualize factory 5S audit data from 60+ factory zones

·	Identified and repurposed wasted space in certain areas of the factory to increase throughput by up to  55% 

·	Led project to increase overall accuracy of vehicle repair time data with End of Line and Service teams

### Software Engineering Intern, Market Data @ Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bala Cynwood, PA
·	Supported multiple market data visualization applications utilized daily by 800+ traders

·	Created comprehensive mocking framework to unit test both existing and future software 

·	Unit tested entire .NET application consisting of more than 30 individual projects 

·	Added new historical market data retrieval feature to Microsoft Excel plugin

### Software Engineering Intern, Geospatial Systems @ Harris Corporation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Clifton, NJ
·	Collaborated with a team of software and hardware engineers on a GPS III system redesign effort

·	Completed detailed UML Class and Sequence diagrams and reviewed others’ diagrams

·	Designed and programmed functionality for system Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)  

·	Wrote and executed unit tests for multiple units of work

·	Prepared an instructional document for employees on using Jenkins for continuous integration

### Researcher, Department of Computer Science @ Rutgers University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
·	Developed “remote eyes” - a stereo camera device which remotely monitors an Oculus Rift headset’s movements, adjusts position using servo motors to match the headset’s orientation, and displays captured video on the headset’s left and right eye accordingly (C++, Python, Arduino, ROS)

·	Presented research and demonstrated remote eyes system at 2014 Aresty Summer Science Symposium

### Tennis Instructor @ Franklin Township
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Franklin Township, New Jersey, United States
· Taught tennis basics to groups of 10-20 students.

· Held Youth and Adult classes.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Rutgers University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018

### High School Diploma
Franklin High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20