# Swara Srinivasan

> Senior Autonomy Engineer at Knightscope

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/swara

Swara Srinivasan is a Senior Autonomy Engineer with experience building, deploying, and improving autonomous mobile systems in real-world environments. She currently works at Knightscope, where she has helped lead key initiatives in localization, sensor fusion, navigation behavior, and system architecture for next-generation robotic platforms.

Swara holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University and brings a strong technical foundation to her work in autonomy and robotics. She is skilled in Python, C++, ROS, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker.

## Work Experience
### Senior Autonomy Engineer @ Knightscope
Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Robotics Software Engineer @ Knightscope
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Member of the Autonomy Team

### Robot Fleet Engineer @ Knightscope
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Robot Fleet Engineering Intern @ Knightscope
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Undergraduate Student @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Greater Pittsburgh Area

### Outreach Director, Women in Science @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
• Led the outreach for Women in Science at Carnegie Mellon to actively encourage young girls and women in the Greater Pittsburgh area to pursue careers in science.

### WLAN System Test Engineering Intern @ Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, California Area
• Delivered a base test automation framework to customize testing of a variety of sensors and connected devices. Wrote scripts to automate the configuration and connection of Wireless Access Points, Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons, iOS and Android devices.
• Automated test scripts for ping and iPerf traffic with Windows and Mac clients to test network performance at scale using Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, Express and MongoDB. 
• Executed scripts that collected data from the sensors, parsed traffic logs, exported to MongoDB and displayed on a dashboard created using NodeJS and Express.
• Reduced testing time by 30% by automating test scripts and increased scale to testing 30+ devices concurrently.

### Test Automation Engineering Intern @ Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, California
• Automated testing for Web and Native apps on iOS and Android using Python framework and Appium.
• Executed a first of a kind project at Aruba that involved testing of multiple Android and iOS devices at a time. Significantly reduced testing times and improved quality assurance through advanced automation of test scripts.
• Voted the “Best Summer Intern” at Aruba for the Summer of 2018.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Physics with Computer Science coursework
Carnegie Mellon University

### High School
Leland High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/swaras

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Last updated: 2026-04-01