Yashasvi Asthana
Yashasvi Asthana

Senior Software Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 22 Oct 2026
Location
San Francisco, United States
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior Software Engineer with five years of experience at Nimble Robotics, where I build production software for multi-robot systems. My core expertise is in Rust and Python, with a focus on reliable, high-performance, event-driven architectures.

I have designed and implemented fleet and robot state machines, task scheduling systems, and order allocation workflows that run across production sites. I enjoy solving systems-level problems involving distributed coordination, scheduling, simulation, and optimization.

I have contributed to migrating critical software components from Python to Rust, improving processing performance and supporting an event-driven architecture across major subsystems. I also have experience building realistic operator and robot mocks for full-system simulations for faster feedback loops and behavior iteration.

My background includes machine learning, computer vision, data structures, and algorithms. Through research and graduate work, I have developed models for recurring pattern discovery, pose classification, air traffic controller workload prediction, and surveillance systems.

I hold a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. I value collaborative problem-solving, critical thinking, and building practical solutions for complex technical challenges.

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Working toolkit

Development

Experience

Career history

Senior Software Engineer Nimble Robotics Inc

Joined as an early engineer and built fleet and robot state machines along with the task scheduling layer for a multi-robot coordination system. The system uses reinforcement learning and heuristic control policies and runs at production sites.

Migrated crucial components from Python to Rust to improve processing performance and enable event-driven architecture across company software subsystems. Built order source allocation and grouping functionality, optimized order assignment algorithms, and developed operator and robot mocks for full-system simulation with multiple robots and real or synthetic orders.

Worked on-site in San Francisco for three years and continued remotely for two years on an otherwise on-site team. Participated in overnight on-call support.

Teaching Assistant The Pennsylvania State University

Supported the Artificial Intelligence course as a Teaching Assistant and managed seven programming assignments.

Implemented Python-based auto-grading that reduced manual grading effort by approximately 10 hours per week.

Undergraduate Research Assistant Vellore Institute of Technology and Airport Authority of India

Created a dataset from 10 years of raw radar data and identified factors associated with higher air traffic controller workloads. Trained a model to predict air traffic controller workload from a flight plan.

Helped create optimized work schedules for air traffic controllers, reducing the required number of daily controllers by 20%.

Education

Learning history

The Pennsylvania State University

Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering

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