# Karan Gugle

> Engineering @ Cogent Security

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

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Cogent Security
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Senior Software Engineer @ Tesla
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Architected an on-vehicle trigger evaluation system and led its development from conception to production. Reduced time to high-resolution vehicle data from 6 weeks to 15 minutes, tightening Tesla's firmware release cycle and creating a step change in vehicle data collection capabilities. Led a small team of engineers directly and drove a highly complex rollout to the entire global fleet (4M+ vehicles).

### Software Engineer @ Tesla
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California
Led telemetry development for a skunk works project racing the Plaid Model S prototype at the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany. Using trackside learnings, built a novel telemetry system to live stream embedded systems data from vehicles. Architected the system to stream full-rate data, adapt to low bandwidth environments, and provide sub-second latency.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California
Designed distributed systems to transform, store, and analyze massive quantities of prototype vehicle signal data. Improved query times 2 orders of magnitude, decreased analysis error rates from 32% to < 1%.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Intuitive
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California
Developed a search and analytics engine augmented with natural language understanding for a widely-used medical device database.


## Education
### Carnegie Mellon University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karan-gugle-a8a80160

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Last updated: 2026-04-05