# Kishore S. > Software Engineer at Applied Intuition | UC Berkeley EECS BS, MS Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kishores I am an avid software developer with experience in integrated design and development, looking to apply my passion for robotics, computer vision, and machine learning to solve exciting, practical problems. I constantly look for new topics to learn about and new problems to solve, be it in a workplace setting or in the freelance environment, so please reach out with any opportunities or ideas you have! Check out my portfolio (kishore-srinivas.github.io) and Github (github.com/kishore-srinivas)! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Benchling Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States Worked with AutoLab to develop robust algorithms for robotic controls Publications: - Incrementally Building Room-Scale Language-Embedded Gaussian Splats (LEGS) with a Mobile Robot (IROS '24, Abu Dhabi) - The Busboy Problem: Efficient Tableware Decluttering Using Consolidation & Multi-Object Grasps [arxiv.org/abs/2307.03882] (CASE ‘23, Auckland) - STITCH: Augmented Dexterity for Suture Throws Including Thread Coordination and Handoffs [https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05151] (ISMR '24, Atlanta) - Digital Twin Framework for Telesurgery in the Presence of Varying Network QoS [ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9926585] (CASE ‘22, Mexico City) - Automating Vascular Shunt Insertion with the dVRK Surgical Robot [arxiv.org/abs/2211.02293] (ICRA ‘23, London) - Learning to Efficiently Plan Robust Frictional Multi-Object Grasps [arxiv.org/abs/2210.07420] (IROS ‘23, Detroit) ### Software Engineer Intern @ Benchling Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Owned the start-to-finish development of versioned histories for Notebook chips, swaying a deal worth over $3 million. Redesigned database schemas and full-stack workflows using Python, GraphQL, and React to build version control. Conducted performance analysis using Mode and Datadog; wrote backend optimizations to reduce compute costs. Drove product through initial scoping, engineering iteration and redesign, and production release, within 12 weeks. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Benchling Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Refactored permissions system data model to implement transitive closure for ancestry, built an optimized traversal algorithm, and organized the dual write and backfill of the new data model to migrate hundreds of active source-of-truth tables. Architected asynchronous sampling, execution, and logging systems to performance test new permissions framework with live user data. Wrote Python and JavaScript linters to enforce codebase consistency and flag inefficient programming practices, as part of the company's efforts to standardize to codebase. ### Software Engineering Intern - Application Development @ ServiceNow Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California, United States Developed schema and wrote API for global GraphQL search across dashboard data sources, complete with React-based UI featuring incremental search for an efficient user experience Built user presence indicators for alert dashboard, with React-based web component frontend and GraphQL backend with database table listeners for real-time updates ### Software Engineering and Business Development Intern @ Next Capital Tech LLC Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Designed a reinforcement learning model to optimally trade shares, using quantum computing to reduce training times by 40% and enable continuous learning through periodic retraining Created an automatic file transfer system with data analytics and status checks to accurately fetch, transfer, and append new data to existing csv files, reducing downtime by 90% ### Sales Consultant @ Best Buy Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States Consulted with customers to recommend the best solutions based on their needs, focusing on the home theater department Helped customers find the best TVs, soundbars, receivers, speakers, cables, and streaming devices for their specific use cases Supported them through the buying and set up processes, ensuring they had everything they needed to enjoy the best home theater experience ### Laboratory Assistant at CompTech Lab @ De Anza College Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, California, United States Refurbished old computers, replacing faulty components and running hardware and software tests Gained experience servicing I/O ports, CPU cooling systems, network cards, and RAM, as well as diagnosing and fixing issues with OS installs and driver software. Troubleshooted hardware and software issues with students’ existing laptops ### Strategy Lead of the Robotics Team @ Homestead High School Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cupertino, California, United States Served as drive coach during competition, leading alliance members in determining optimal match strategy, combining the strengths and complementing the weaknesses of each other's robots Worked with the software and hardware leads to keep pace for a strict 6 week build deadline Developed a computer vision system using OpenCV to analyze feeds from fisheye cameras and Microsoft Lifecams to reduce target searching and alignment time by 50%. ### Software Engineer @ Kaydoh Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, California, United States Developed a new version of the WebCMA chatbot using BotEngine, improving ease of use by building conversation-style interactions with the help of NLP Implemented report generation and sharing features for the web dashboard, complete with a robust EC2 backend Automated the email marketing system using MailChimp ### Engineering Intern @ Kaydoh Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California, United States Migrated the existing web based text chatbot to the Amazon Alexa platform Created a full voice conversation system for agents to order and send CMA reports, reducing report generation time by 80% ### Swim Instructor @ California Sports Center Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Taught swim to young children in the intermediate and advanced levels of the CSC program ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC Berkeley College of Engineering ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC Berkeley College of Engineering ### High School Diploma Homestead High School ### Saint Francis High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kishore-srinivas - Portfolio: https://kishore-srinivas.github.io/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/kishores JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kishores/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11