# Kedar J. > Staff Engineer @ Plus | Georgia Tech | IIT Bombay Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kedar I am excited about shipping production grade autonomy platforms where ML meets embedded systems - and where reliability, runtime, system safety matter a lot. I work on runtime ML infrastructure, software integration for perception sensors and system level integration for powertrain, actuators, safety systems. I have experience working with Linux network tuning, low-level embedded drivers development, sensor characterization, software/electrical integration, and perception runtime interfaces for spinning lidars, fmcw lidars, imaging radars, GNSS/IMU sensors. Also I graduated recently with a master's degree in computer science with a specialization in computing systems. I am working on some interesting side projects. The most active ones are: 1. Concurrent queue (SPSC) implementation - benchmarking throughput performance of various queue implementations and exploring how cache, memory, CPU affects the performance https://github.com/kedar2017/Concurrent_Queue 2. Custom memory allocator - started with a linear allocator to benchmark against other allocators. Other than latency performance, I am exploring how a custom allocator could prove useful in terms of tracking metrics, and reducing a lot of overheads for some traditional workloads like tiled GEMM, graph building, multi-threaded allocation https://github.com/kedar2017/MemoryAllocator 3. High performance Bit Packing - exploring challenges involved in making a very high speed byte packing function which has countless applications. The most straightforward implementation has both compute-bound and memory-bound limitations. https://github.com/kedar2017/BitPacking 4. https://github.com/steenl/PortAlchemy - More details on this coming soon... Contact info: kedarjoshi7777@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer - Runtime Software @ Plus Jan 2024 – Present ### Sr. Engineer - Runtime Software @ Plus Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area - Development work for integrating LiDAR, radar, camera - Development work for integrating brake, torque, steering actuation - Sensor electrical integration - Vehicle platform research ### Member Of Technical Staff @ Plus Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Sensors/Vehicle Integration/Runtime software ### Robotics Software Engineer @ Applied Materials Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area - Design real-time control algorithms for high-rate, fast motion systems - Dynamic models of multi-axis robotic systems - Trajectory generation and tracking algorithms for robots ### Mechanical Engineer @ Applied Materials Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Mechanical design and packaging of components to meet product and system level requirements while optimizing for product attributes Worked with overseas suppliers and local design houses for product development Experience with field issues, manufacturing improvements and sensor qualification setups Mechanical design analysis including thermal, CFD, design for assembly, and design for test ### Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area -Building a system dynamics model for robot-part interaction to understand the effect of robot complaince on machining accuracy -Designing robotic grinding experimental setup to find optimal robot configuration for minimal machining error -Working on designing a flexible robotic gripper to reduce robot vibrations using ANSYS(FEM), DFM, Solid Works ### Software Developer, FIS @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area -Building web application for MTConnect to MQTT data transfer from manufacturing line machines -Working on NodeJs to make Beaglebone talk to the cloud based appplications ### Software Firmware Developer @ SEDEMAC Mechatronics Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pune Area, India Built embedded unit testing tool ### Summer intern @ Unilever Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Leeds, United Kingdom Established root causes for 80% consumer complaints through a critical analysis of entire supply chain Resolved gaps in current core design resulting in savings of €1.2-1.5M across Unilever aerosol packing lines Implemented appropriate policy for annual waste reduction of about €100K at Leeds factory, UK Delivered plan for inclusion of recommendations, costs, value addition into global long term technology ### Firmware Developer @ Carnot Technologies Private Limited Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai Worked on live mileage, emissions calculations to enable users to drive better and save around 20% fuel Executed an over-the-air upgrade of NRF firmware ### Software Developer @ Focus Analytics Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Derived user’s trajectory in mall/building using walking pace, direction of travel, Bluetooth tracked position Used Fingerprint Kalman filter for model prediction of user’s location resulting in high accuracies ### Intern @ Embryyo Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Pune Area, India Verified proof-of-concept within constraints of sensitivity for measurements across anterior fontanelle Developed cost-effective sensor for use in rural areas where neonatal heart defects account for 30% deaths ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Master of Science - MS in Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology ### Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kedar-j-b0860298 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kedar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kedar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01