# Ravi Sankar

> Engineering, Algorithms | x-Apple | x-Founder

Location: Stanford, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ravisankar

## Work Experience
### Senior Robotics Software Engineer / Engineering Manager @ Dexterity, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present
Lead development of full-stack robotic manipulation systems integrating RGB-D vision, force sensing, kinematic and motion planning

### Lead Software Engineer / Sr Software Engineer @ Daily.co - We're hiring!
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built and shipped real-time video AI features (background blur, background replacement, gestures) powering production WebRTC applications. 

Architected low-latency media processing, telemetry and observability systems to improve reliability, latency and product experience at scale.

### Director of Research and Development @ Avinew
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Headed sensor algorithms, machine learning and data science. Managed 2 full-time engineers and 2 contractors.
• Developed LSTM based model to recognize autonomous driving from telemetry logs. Achieving 84% recall and 82% precision on classification.
• Architect of risk maps that map accident probability at every road, intersection, ramp, city and county.
• Risk maps were built upon > 7.3M accidents, 30M traffic data point, 20M road info. Used Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) to build risk maps correlated with actual accident locations occurrences at R2 of > 0.99.
• Engineering and Product head for SafeRoutes, a unique product in the intersections of maps, navigation and risk algorithms. 81% of users reported loving the product experience in Beta tests.

### Founder, CEO @ BetterDrive (Acquired by Avinew)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Mobility insurance startup focussing on real-time, contextual accident risk prediction algorithms for telematics & UBI.

- Headed product vision & strategy, customer discovery, partnership, fundraising & hiring.
- Headed development of algorithms and risk models, involving tasks such as data collection, modeling, simulations & analysis.
 - Collected >1.5 million traffic events along with geolocated traffic, weather, and route data.
 - Modeled accident risk with respect to route, traffic, weather & telematic sensors data. Geolocation/GIS/Mapping of risk distribution using Kernel density estimators.
 - Integrate web services, mapping applications with telematics for mobile app user interface (Various Google APIs, Here API, INRIX API, DarkSky API, Climatology)

### Software/Hardware Engineer: Sensing & Instrumentation @ Apple
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Cupertino
Software, hardware, instrumentation & calibration algorithms for custom sensor product development. Part of the team that developed and launched the 1st generation 3D touch sensor for iPhones.

### Systems Engineer: Characterization @ SiTime
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, Ca
Systems engineering, silicon characterization, calibration algorithm development.

MATLAB | Hardware board design

### Senior Engineer | Management trainee @ Larsen & Toubro Limited
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Mumbai Area, India
Heavy engineering. Manufacturing.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics)
Stanford University

### BE in Mechanical Engineering
University of Pune


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ravi-sankar-4abab221

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Last updated: 2026-04-01