# Gokul Dharan

> Staff Autonomy Engineer at Zipline

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gokuldharan

## Work Experience
### Staff Autonomy Engineer @ Zipline
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Autonomy Engineer @ Zipline
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026

### Autonomy Engineer @ Zipline
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, CA
- Led design and development of Platform 2’s automated air traffic Detect And Avoid (DAA) system, culminating in FAA approval of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations
- Designed and implemented a variety of business-critical flight motion-planning and cross-functional capabilities to unlock higher payloads, longer range, faster flight, and improved fault-tolerance 
- Played a key role in Platform 1’s DAA development and BVLOS approval
- Shipped key autonomy features that have safely handled >1 million commercial delivery flights

### Research Volunteer @ Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States
Member of the Stanford Vision and Learning Laboratory, leading a project based on iGibson - a simulation environment for training robot agents

### Teaching Assistant - CS231n: Deep Learning for Computer Vision @ Stanford University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer Intern @ Zipline
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Embedded Software Engineer Intern - Amazon Scout @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | United States

### Summer Research Fellow @ ETH Zürich
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Zürich Area, Switzerland
•	Selected as one of 20 SSRF students among over 2500 applicants
•	Built a MATLAB framework to evaluate the relative performance of trajectory optimization methods

### Software Engineer - Quartus Compiler Group - PEY Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
•	Worked on the Static Timing Analysis team with a focus on improving compiler runtime and memory usage
•	Optimized and rewrote existing algorithms to deliver >2x speedup in runtime-critical modules
•	Solved several critical customer-facing bugs and developed major usability enhancements
•	Delivered high performance C++ code in an agile development environment

### Data Science Intern - Customer Intelligence @ Indigo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto

### Undergraduate Researcher @ National University of Singapore
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Singapore


## Education
### Master's of Science (MS) in Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Engineering Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Minor in Robotics and Mechatronics
University of Toronto

### IB Diploma
International Baccalaureate

### International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma in Alberta High School Diploma
Henry Wise Wood High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gokul-dharan-257bb784

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Last updated: 2026-04-12