# Nevin Valsaraj

> Autonomy & Platform Engineering at Gatik | Formerly at Microsoft, CMU

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nevinvalsaraj

Software generalist with experience in platform engineering and robotics. Prior work experience in enterprise commerce, enterprise search and autonomous driving. Comfortable working in the following areas: systems software, platform engineering, robotics software, back-end development, build toolchains, developer tools, devops and release management.

I hold a Masters degree in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II, Platform & Architecture @ Gatik
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving platform development working closely with autonomy, hardware, vehicle infra, systems & safety and operations teams to ensure reliability and performance for Gen 3 autonomous driving platform.

Responsibilities: 
- System integration and compute bring-up for Gen 3 hardware platform
- Toolchains, core build systems, packaging and release strategy
- Stack launch, system monitoring and device telemetry
- System health, ETL and metrics

### Senior Software Engineer, Platform @ Gatik
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Solving autonomous driving for Gatik's middle-mile logistics network. Focusing on core platform engineering with the Robotics & Autonomy division. 

Focus areas:
- Core build systems, source control and packaging for x86 and ARM architectures
- Drivers and compute bring-up for Gen 3 hardware platform
- Stack launch and telemetry

### Software Engineer, Autonomy Framework @ Aurora
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
Worked on the autonomy runtime (OS & middleware) of Aurora Driver self-driving platform and safety-critical software. Improved the inter-process communication layer by implementing memory optimizations, preventing out-of-memory crashes during runtime.

### Software Engineer - Engineering Fundamentals, Bing Search @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Worked with Web Experiences Team on improving engineering infrastructure, developer tools. package management, remote build systems, and packaging infrastructure migration.

### Software Engineer - Web Data Platform, Bing Search @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Hyderabad Area, India
Worked with Bing Web Data Platform team on content quality of Microsoft Bing Search. Improved data freshness for Wikipedia on Bing, reduced insights generation times and worked on back-end applications development for the second generation of Bing Webmaster Tools.

### Software Engineer - Volume Licensing, Enterprise Commerce @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Hyderabad Area, India
Worked with Volume Licensing team in Commerce Services and Compliance (formerly Enterprise Commerce) on backend services powering Microsoft's global commerce. Migrated critical monolith services to micro-services architecture, improved build systems and worked extensively on Azure Cloud platform to develop highly available and reliable web services powering the commerce data pipelines. 

Served as co-lead of the committee organizing technical trainings for the university hires program.

### Summer Intern, Embedded Software @ Texas Instruments
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India
Worked on embedded software on IoT devices with the Wireless Connectivity Solutions group. Developed an optimized GPS device driver from scratch for their proprietary microcontroller platform reducing memory footprint by ~63%. Also developed a visualization tool for real-time GPS data based on NodeJs.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Robotic Systems Development
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Technology (Honours) in Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nevinvalsaraj
- Website: https://github.com/nevalsar

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Last updated: 2026-04-01