Abhinav Palle
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbhinav Palle is a software engineer and startup founder with seven years of experience building AI-driven products and robotics systems from San Francisco. Currently co-founder and CEO of a stealth general-purpose robotics startup incubated at Berkeley SkyDeck and simultaneously contributing to autonomy at Waymo, he blends embodied intelligence research with production engineering. His background spans fintech trade optimization, surgical robotics at Intuitive, climate-focused engineering at Flexport, and AI tooling for video search, showing a pattern of shipping high-impact systems across domains. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from UC Riverside and has hands-on experience teaching embedded and real-time systems, revealing strong systems instincts and mentorship ability. Notably, he has repeatedly transitioned between founding teams and top-tier engineering roles, signaling both product judgment and deep implementation chops. He describes his work as “engineering with purpose,” focused on practical AI and robotics solutions that move from research to real-world impact.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of California, RiversideBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Osmania University
Github Skills (6)
ocr10
pdf10
ai9
kie9
pdf-parser9
robotics6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tetraxcode/PBA-Django
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:26 pushes in 1 month
Synthrails/Synthrails-landing
Aug 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 months
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