# Sivanesh Manoharan > Senior Software Engineer at Motive, building AI dashcams for semi-trucks. Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sivanesh ## Work Experience ### OnDeck Fellow @ ODF Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Cohort 26 ### Software Engineer @ Stealth Startup Jan 2025 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer - Safety team @ Motive Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States * Won "Executive's Special choice award" at 2023 hackathon for building real-time live streaming as a truck reverse-assistance tool. * Productionized the idea by working closely with the VP of Product and leading a cross-functional team (Mobile, Embedded, Embedded QA, and Product); presented the solution to enterprise customers including PepsiCo and AutoZone. * Delivered the first-gen AI dash cam (Hubble) under critical deadlines, launching key AI-powered safety events: cell phone usage, unsafe lane change, and close following. * Fully owned the architecture and execution of the video recall flow for Omnicam(in-house standalone camera) alongside the IoT team. * Lead a team of 2 backend engineers, 1 frontend engineer and 2 QAs, and launched the first version of Safety-Coach Assignment(SCA) and SCA reports. Compliance projects: * Formed & led a new team (Automated Compliance Pod), bringing together 2 backend engineers, 2 frontend engineers, 2 QA engineers, and 1 data scientist. * Launched the first version of CSA Daily & Monthly Insights, delivering automated compliance reporting and insights for customers. * Solely built and launched the first version of Real Time Vehicle Gateway Disconnects, providing immediate visibility into compliance-critical events. ### Software Engineer @ Motive Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States * Won the “C-Suite Award” at a hackathon for "Real time In-cab audio alerts"; later productionized the project, securing a $1M enterprise customer (Canada). * As the sole engineer, completely owned event severity detection system from scratch - data collection, cleansing, annotation, Random Forest model training/validation; This high impact project formed the foundation of the Safety Coaching Suite. * One of the early engineers on the Speeding team; built and launched IoT based speeding detection enabling customers to replace third-party tools and rely fully on our platform. Notable launches: * Built live image recall from the first version of Motive Smart Cameras (IoT). * Safety overview dashboard. * Smart Load board. ### Applications Programmer III @ University of California Office of the President Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | Oakland, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ HomeAway.com Jan 2013 – Jan 2013  User Management System is part of HomeAway.com maintaining user details and authenticating users.  Designed and developed new APIs (with ETag support) using Java Spring MVC framework to support non-browser based interaction among client applications.  Internationalized (i18n) the application using “CookieLocaleResolver” for newly acquired companies.  Resolved production issues and worked on new features and shipped code every 2 weeks.  Written 300+ unit test cases using Mockito framework with 90% code coverage ### Software Engineer (CMU Practicum project) @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012  Developed web application using Java Struts, MySql and MyBatis framework to optimize business workflow of client organization.  Analyzed architecture of the system and employed design patterns to develop Object Oriented design.  Developed modules in Java for integrating our new system with dynamic Jasper reporting engine.  Extended code to import data from legacy system ‘Harmony’. ### Web Developer (CMU Practicum project) @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Technologies - PHP, SQL, AJAX, jQuery Another practicum project of CMU where we have to apply the core software engineering principles learned from the courses like Architectures of Software systems, Analysis of Software artifacts, etc. We developed this project for our alumni Mr. SaravanKumar, Oracle Inc, USA. • Developed SCORM compatible Content Development System which is customizable according to the needs of educational institutions in India. • Developed features like peer faculty review of contents and chat room for professors. • Customized open source Text chat engine called “AJAX chat” and integrated with our tool. • Modified cache in order to handle frequently searched contents and increased performance • Enhanced search option of contents based on frequent hits, author and title. • Analyzed various software processes RUP, AUP, Agile, TSP and ACDM and adopted AUP. ### Masters student in ISR @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 ### Web Developer @ UniqueID Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ### Summer Intern @ HCL Infosystems Ltd Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 ## Education ### Master of Science in Information Technology in Software Engineering Carnegie Mellon University ### Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering SSN College of Engineering ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science and Engineering Pondicherry University ### High School Diploma in English, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and French Shrishti Schools ### 10th Grade Ida Scudder School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/msivanesh --- Source: https://flows.cv/sivanesh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sivanesh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11