# Sunay Poole

> Software Engineer at SpaceX

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sunaypoole

I'm a Computer Science and Engineering Physics double major at UC Berkeley interested in robotics, motion planning, and control. Due to graduate in December 2022. Currently seeking a full-time position starting in 2023.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ SpaceX
Jan 2023 – Present | Starbase, Texas

### Head Undergraduate Student Instructor (uGSI) (Content) @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Head TA in charge of content for the largest ever offering of UC Berkeley's Introduction to Robotics class. Responsible for creating exam questions, facilitating lectures, and teaching robotics concepts in office hours and during three 50-person discussion sections per week. Class concepts include rigid body transformations, forward/inverse kinematics, computer vision, the manipulator Jacobian, motion planning, Lagrangian dynamics, and control.

### Software Engineering Intern (Motion Planning and Prediction) @ Rivian
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
-Researched and refined a variety of path planning algorithms in order to design a path planner for autonomous parking
-Worked in C++ to develop autonomous parking planner; integrated into current planning architecture for on-vehicle testing

### Software Engineer Intern (Exploratory Design) @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Cupertino, California, United States
-Used PostgreSQL and the corresponding adapter for Python (psycopg) to manipulate and reorganize a large database
-Worked in Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and used Flask to create a web server for fetching, displaying, and downloading file data, and to act as a platform for smoother, more standardized integration of additional APIs
-Created a custom search feature to filter between over 100,000 database entries and display information according to user input; fine-tuned the search feature according to feedback received from users

### Undergraduate Student Instructor (uGSI) @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
I spent three semesters as a TA for CS 61C (Great Ideas of Computer Architecture - Machine Structures) at UC Berkeley. I taught course concepts including C memory management, RISC-V assembly coding, boolean logic, SDS, datapath construction, caches, virtual memory, OS, I/O, and parallelism (DLP and TLP), among others. I conducted weekly discussion sections and office hours, held review sessions, created exam questions, helped students debug projects, and wrote practice problems for worksheets. I also managed the 15 course tutors for the Fall 2020 semester, conducting trainings and weekly checkins about their sections and office hours.

I taught the class for 5 semesters overall, and held positions as an 8-hour tutor, 8-hour TA, and 20-hour TA.

### Robotics Engineer Intern @ Friendly Robots Company
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States
I primarily focused on the hardware development and software bringup of new autonomous vehicles, creating a Standard Operating Procedure for future builds. I also worked in C to analyze signals going to and from the robot's drive control unit, and worked in the Gazebo simulator to model a robotic arm intended for manipulation of the robot's environment.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ SWARM Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California
I worked under Professor Chunlei Liu on a project aiming to use EEG sensing technology inside an MRI scanner. I was responsible for comparing data received from non-contact electrodes against commercial products, and used filters to eliminate noise and achieve more accurate signals. I also worked in C and Python to use MRI scanning technology on various microcontrollers.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Engineering Physics
University of California, Berkeley

### High School Diploma
Flintridge Preparatory School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sunay-poole-35b135178

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Last updated: 2026-03-29